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Government research grants need to require that papers produced are available online for free. This would rapidly change the academic publishing situation.
by c517402 9y ago
Government research grants need to require that papers produced are available online for free. This would rapidly change the academic publishing situation.
- return0 9y agomany funding bodies do. but what to do about older papers?
- c517402 9y agoMaybe a law reducing the length of copyright on academic papers to a few years.
- return0 9y agoactually thats not a good idea. A paper may already take 1+ year to go from experiment to publication, it should be open for everyone to read immediately to be most useful - science moves fast.