- Government uses tax payer money to fund a bunch of research (internal and at universities) - Some publisher paywalls the research - Taxpayers pay publisher to unpaywall the research Really dumb system. All research should be open, the CS field is doing this well. All sciences should follow.
all taxpayer funded research should be open sourced.
It is, both at the USDA [0] and those who receive grants from NIH and NCI.
All this action does is make researchers at USDA much less productive by removing their access to research that others have published behind paywalls. However, Elsevier, the most vampiric of the paywallers, was deemed suitable-to-be-paid by DOGE.