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> The nationwide deal sought by scientists includes a open-access option, under which all corresponding authors affiliated with German institutions would be all
by woliveirajr 9y ago
> The nationwide deal sought by scientists includes a open-access option, under which all corresponding authors affiliated with German institutions would be allowed to make their papers free to read and share by anyone in the world.
This is a very good clause to the German institutions. Everybody will like to exchange letters, informations, get in contact with German authors. And when we have communication, we have knowledge and data sharing, and everybody benefits from it. Specially the corresponding authors.
- Vinnl 9y agoThat's already often allowed. What the negotiators will want is that all those papers will be free to read (or actually: use, under a permissive Creative Commons license) by default.