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US plans to open up government-funded science research papers to all
- docmechanic 4y ago"Fourteen years after the late Aaron Swartz published his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto calling for the liberation of publicly funded scientific literature, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has called for taxpayer-funded research to be made available to the public at no cost."
- rsfern 4y agoEarlier discussion of the OSTP memo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596182 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596182 This policy will make it free to read and access the supporting data, but still doesn’t address publishing fees for researchers beyond providing some funding for them in grants
- docmechanic 4y agoThank you.