I’m not sure how I feel about this. On one hand this is great for transparency and progress but this is also paid for by US taxpayers so why should scientist/people outside of the US benefit?
Why should they not?
Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay
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I wonder why something like this takes 4 years to roll out? Is there a legitimate reason? Or is it lobbyist dollars at work already, buying time?
For the NSF at least, most grants are awarded for 3-5 years. When the last policy shift happened (all grant-supported publications need to be publicly released into the NSF's publication archive), it applied to newly awarded grants. 4 years should give most existing grants a chance to cycle out.
Why not make it effective for all new grants going forward tomorrow?
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#193I’m not sure how I feel about this. On one hand this is great for transparency and progress but this is also paid for by US taxpayers so why should scientist/people outside of the US benefit?
Why should they not?
Because they are not paying for the research with their taxes and their governments are not reciprocating the openness.
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#194I’m not sure how I feel about this. On one hand this is great for transparency and progress but this is also paid for by US taxpayers so why should scientist/people outside of the US benefit?
Well, any country with import/export tariffs have people across the world that are taxpayers even if they are not citizens.
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#195Publishers such as elsevier must be upset. Once the majority of research is not behind their paywall they lose their position as first place to look for papers and all of the network effects. Eyeballs will be going elsewhere
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why should they not?
Because they are not paying for the research with their taxes and their governments are not reciprocating the openness.
What do you think the first step toward that is, if not this.
The benefits outweigh the cost several times over.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why should they not?
Because they are not paying for the research with their taxes and their governments are not reciprocating the openness.
There is no such thing as a published scientific journal available to only one country.
Nobody is saying that the government can't fund private research (as it surely does in the context of security, defense, etc). But that if research is _published_, it ought to be open access rather than behind a paywall.
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#199Used to be that was the job of a certain Kazakh citizen.
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#200I’m not sure how I feel about this. On one hand this is great for transparency and progress but this is also paid for by US taxpayers so why should scientist/people outside of the US benefit?
What is access like now, anyone can pay to access regardless of citizenship? If so, then it would seem most US citizens are paying twice to access the research anyways - the same deal as foreign countries. If this makes it free for everyone it's not really changing (most) anyone's relative cost - assuming I'm correct on the first point.