Scientists in China call for Chang’e 5 moon mission research to be published in Chinese to make it accessible at home
- Access to results research on publicly funded missions limited in China, scientists say
- Some domestic journals available in Chinese and English, publisher says
Lu Hongbo, a retired professor of geology with the China University of Petroleum in Qingdao, said access to the papers had been limited because they had been released in a language that most people in China did not understand.
“Don’t forget there are many young students and earth science fans in China who want to have examined the original content rather than some translated, bragging reports,” Lu said.
Three of the papers appeared in the journal Nature, which charges readers an annual subscription of €186 (US$216) for access to the full text.
One of the other papers was published in Science and another in the National Science Review, an Oxford University Press imprint under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Both Science and the National Science Review papers are open access.