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I paid for the research with my tax payer money. Give me full access to the articles. Anything less is unacceptable (unless Nature wants to pay me back the taxe
by yupthatsit 12y ago
I paid for the research with my tax payer money. Give me full access to the articles. Anything less is unacceptable (unless Nature wants to pay me back the taxes they owe me).
- paulrosenzweig 12y agoThere might be details I'm missing, but I think all NIH funded, peer-reviewed research needs to be publicly accessible within 12 months of publication. http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm
- toomuchtodo 12y agoAny Gates Foundation research is now required to be immediately available at publication as well: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/how-we-work/general-information/open-access-policy http://www.gatesfoundation.org/how-we-work/general-informati...
- timthorn 12y agoSounds like your beef is with the researchers or their teams for choosing a paid access publication, not Nature then.
- timtadh 12y agoNot all research is funded by tax payers.
- baddox 12y agoSounds like Libertarian propaganda. /s
- jaskerr 12y agoBe prepared to name research projects that do not receive government funding in the first or second degree. (That is: receive funding directly, or from grant-making organizations that themselves receive substantial government funding.)
- refurb 12y agoAny research funded by non-governmental organizations like the Howard Hughes Foundation, Michael J Fox foundation, etc, etc.
- yzzxy 12y agoAccording to the way stem cell research was segregated, those projects would have had to take place in buildings funded without taxes, staffed by researchers paid by private funds, using new equipment and materials, etc...
- tjradcliffe 12y agoA great deal of research funded by such organizations is done in combination with taxpayer funding, particularly with regard to infrastructure. As a cancer researcher I had funding from companies and foundations, but depended on my position in a tax-payer funded research lab to actually do the work.
- sjf 12y agoYour taxes are not funding international research.
- jamesrcole 12y agoI think the claim was that they were being funded by taxes, not that they were being funded only by the taxes they personally pay.
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- mkramlich 12y ago> I paid for the research with my tax payer money. Give me full access to it. though I have a similar desire I don't think that's a good argument for justifying it. why? evaluate the following symmetrical situations: > I paid for the [tank, aircraft carrier, nukes, Fort Knox, etc] with my tax payer money. Therefore... that said, I do think there's a greater net benefit to humanity, and scientific progress will accelerate, the easier, cheaper and less restrictive access we have to papers and research results.
- 542458 12y ago> I paid for the [tank, aircraft carrier, nukes, Fort Knox, etc] with my tax payer money. Therefore... That's not a very good comparison, as those are all rival goods, and furthermore have obvious negative externalities (IE are dangerous). I can't think of a non-rival government-funded good (without harmful externalities) that would NOT make sense to to make freely available. Edit: Oh hey, I'm being downvoted for an opinion. Sitting at -1 right now.
- eru 12y agoDon't worry about early downvotes. (Also, don't complain about downvotes. That only makes the signal to noise ratio worse.)
- Houshalter 12y agoDon't complain about complaining about downvotes.
- eru 12y agoOh, I meant to educate about the culture, not complain.
- alexqgb 12y agoNot sure why you're being down-voted. The comparison you were pointing out as being obviously idiotic is, in fact, obviously idiotic. There's a far better comparison to be made with IP produced by NASA, for instance, which is automatically released directly to the public domain on the grounds that the American public is who commissioned it in the first place (for the rest of the world, it's a gift - you're welcome).