If you want something that is a social good, there has to be an economic model to support it. That could be a government using taxation to establish an agency

If you want something that is a social good, there has to be an economic model to support it. That could be a government using taxation to establish an agency to do the work. That could be a business seeing a means to make a profit to provide it. That could mean a volunteer organization getting set up to do it. Each of the above have their pluses and minuses. A government agency in charge of scientific knowledge? What could go wrong? A business charging $$ for access to knowledge? What could go wrong? A volunteer organization beholden to plutocrat and partisan doners? What could go wrong? The best answer is to push for many alternatives and make whatever organizations that are providing the good to compete against one another.