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All that needs to happen is that public research grants have to require you to make your paper available free of charge through a suitable system. Such a system
by revelation 15y ago
All that needs to happen is that public research grants have to require you to make your paper available free of charge through a suitable system. Such a system is obviously trivial to provide on the internet.
Then we can save the time having to deal with retarded "open letters" or creating petitions like servants.
- tylerneylon 15y agoThere's a bill that could do this - FRPAA = Federal Research Public Access Act: http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/frpaa/index.shtml http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/frpaa/index.shtml
- Gatsky 15y agoThe ethics committees that have to approve most bioscience research could also mandate open access. Fundamentally I think this is an ethical issue, particularly where people volunteer as research subjects for clinical trials.