On: Big Problems Facing Science

[stcredzero]

Could the "citizen science" movement help with the paywall problem?

What about legislation requiring that any unclassified government funded science be available outside a paywall? Last I saw a figure for it, the combined budgets of all of the US military bands was ~$270 million a year. I bet a lot of science publication could be "nationalized" for that amount.

[veddox → stcredzero]

The EU has put a regulation in place that as of 2020, all published research that funded by it must be open access (https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/27/eu-mandates-open-access-fo...).