[Irtalk] Taxpayers spend $140 billion funding science each year — but can't access many of the results - Vox

[Hilton Gibson]

*If the US federal government made publishing in an open-access journal a
condition of getting a grant,* said Eisen, the flood gates of science would
open. The government controls the biggest pot of money for science funding,
after all, and if they enacted a rule that research they paid for had to be
immediately available to the public, *scientists would need to turn to
open-access journals and traditional journals would need to change their
predatory ways*.

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/10/7522713/open-access
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