<div dir="ltr">The quote above, from the Finch Report, stands at the heart of the reasoning for many of the public access mandates for research papers from funding agencies. <b><font color="#ff0000">Despite this very clear statement of an unanswerable principle, funding agencies including the RCUK, the Wellcome Trust and a host of US Government agencies continue to develop policies that ignore the fundamental question of what is meant by “results”.</font></b><div><br><a href="http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/08/11/revisiting-is-access-to-the-research-paper-the-same-thing-as-access-to-the-research-results/">http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/08/11/revisiting-is-access-to-the-research-paper-the-same-thing-as-access-to-the-research-results/</a></div></div>