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Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay

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Re: Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay

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Post by yuan43 »

Those commenting here how this sticks it to publishers, it doesn't.

The publishers have merely switched payer from reader to author. The same amount of money is changing hands, and possibly more.

What this does do is make it much more difficult for those groups without the means to pay $1000-$5000 in article publication charges from publishing.

Don't worry, though the federal government is on the case. Researchers will be able to request funds specifically to pay publishers to publish their articles.

The publishers are going to keep making money for doing basically nothing.

Re: Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay

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Post by standardUser »

api wrote: post #235

This is the first thing I've seen that could count as a signature achievement for this administration. This is actually pretty big and will have very positive follow-on consequences in terms of future innovation.

The infrastructure, chip and energy bills aren't too shabby either in terms of fueling innovation.

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yuan43 wrote: post #251

Those commenting here how this sticks it to publishers, it doesn't. The publishers have merely switched payer from reader to author. The same amount of money is changing hands, and possibly more. What this does do is make it much more difficult for those groups without the means to pay $1000-$5000 in article publication charges from publishing. Don't worry, though the federal government is on the case. Researchers wi…

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Re: Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay

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Post by martin_a »

kbuchanan wrote: post #245

This sounds wonderful; I'm super supportive. But, is there anyone who can articulate the trade-offs without the snark? Are there research groups that benefited from the revenue who will now have to raise even more funds? What's made it take so long? (Beyond just "entrenched interests...")

I think there might be conflicts where research was not only funded by the government but also companies, side by side. These "partnerships" will lose exclusivity/first mover advantage for the companies, so why should they get into that if they can just sit it out and get the results just as early as the non-paying competitors?

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Post by ironmagma »

SQueeeeeL wrote: post #249
t-writescode wrote: post #238

Rest in Peace, Aaron Swartz.

Yeah, literally he was simply right but what he did was "illegal" under unethical laws. And now he's dead.

And the Reddit community has disowned him. I'm glad HN still remembers.
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