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Why only half?
by geoka9 13y ago
Why only half?
- logn 13y agoBecause the other half are done by research orgs with budgets less than $100MM and the law doesn't apply to them.
- greenyoda 13y agoThe article says: "Deep inside the $1.1 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2014 is a provision that requires federal agencies under the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education portion of the bill with research budgets of $100 million or more..." Restricting the law to only those three government departments excludes a lot of agencies with huge research budgets: the National Science Foundation (with a 7 billion dollar annual budget[1]), the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, NASA, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Agriculture, etc. In fact, the research published by the Department of Labor and the Department of Education probably has little value to the private sector compared to the research done by the departments that I listed. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation
- dnautics 13y agoto be fair, NIH is huge.
- dnautics 13y agoand DARPA. Military contracted research, which includes stuff like "1000 molecules" (https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b756b30c85f1cac1f670609dcc33ea6c&tab=core&_cview=0 https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b756b30...) should obviously not be open access, because if they were accountable it would be a disaster. /sarcasm