public access to taxpayer-funded research

[Anonymous No.14809140]

>research, which changes our lives and transforms our world, is made possible by
>American tax dollars. And yet, these advancements are behind a paywall and out of reach.
https://twitter.com/NewsfromScience/status/1563247442065141761

[Anonymous No.14809141]

rare biden W

[Anonymous No.14809144]

>Policy is a blow to journal paywalls
Ohh noes, how-ever shall Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Sage, and Taylor&Francis make their billions?!
https://paywallthemovie.com/

[Anonymous No.14809185]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/breakthroughs-for-alldelivering-equitable-access-to-americas-research/

The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era
>Combined, the top five most prolific publishers account for
>more than 50% of all papers published in 2013
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0127502

>all taxpayer-funded research must be free to read
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-taxpayer-funded-free-benefit-access.html

[Anonymous No.14809208]

>>14809140
Sounds good on the surface but what's the catch? There's obviously an evil intent behind this, like there always is with these politicians.

[Anonymous No.14809217]

>>14809208
If it was obvious you wouldn’t have to ask schizo
Come up with one reason how free acces to research papers could be a bad thing. I remember very distinctly how everyone here lost their shit because one headline in a newspaper suggested that no one should do their own research, and voila, now you can do it even better

[Anonymous No.14809218]

>>14809208
the catch is that those publishing will have to pay fees to make the article classified as "open access" and the money to pay these fees will come from the same grants that fund the research, meaning the public is paying for the publishing fees at the end of the day. at least they get to read it though.
unfortunately this won't end with every executive at elsevier committing very public suicide like many of us who deal with them hoped

[Anonymous No.14809221]

>>14809218
by "those publishing" I mean "those who submit the paper" aka the researchers. you already have to pay a fee to classify your paper as open access, so my guess is that this will just be mandatory so the poor baby publishers don't go bankrupt

[Anonymous No.14809223]

>>14809217
That didn't take long, did it?
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>>14809218

[Anonymous No.14809236]

>>14809217
>Come up with one reason how free acces to research papers could be a bad thing.
Even if it becomes free, someone still has to pay for the infrastructure. Someone like the government. Whom should the government pay to do the job?
...still better than the current madness

[Anonymous No.14809241]

>>14809218
>the catch is that those publishing will have to pay fees to make the article classified as "open access" and the money to pay these fees will come from the same grants that fund the research, meaning the public is paying for the publishing fees at the end of the day
It specifically states that this is not an open access, but a public access policy, meaning that those fees don’t necessarily apply.

[Anonymous No.14810911]

>>14809208
>There's obviously an evil intent behind this
...to extort beellions of muh tax dollers?