>Many granting agencies now encourage researchers to publish in open-access mode. I can't see why the government wouldn't publish all works under an open licen

>Many granting agencies now encourage researchers to publish in open-access mode. I can't see why the government wouldn't publish all works under an open license when they (ie tax-payers) paid for the research. In the UK we have a national archives that has all the infrastructure - surely it should have all experimental results and all published, and unpublished, conclusions from that work. The only reason I can see not to do that is to lock up research for private gain. That's acceptable if the researchers are prepared to forgo tax-payer funding, otherwise ... This seems like another of those situations where government make terrible contracts on behalf of citizens/subjects/tax-payers.