7:10 p.m.
Science frågar sig "Will Trump White House tear down journal paywalls? Many
anxiously await a decision"
Vad än USA bestämmer sig för, så kommer beslutet att vara av stor betydelse
för frågan om fri tillgång till
vetenskapliga resultat
Klipp
On 6 May, the deadline passed on a request from the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) for public comments on ways to expand
public access to the fruits of federally funded research, including
published papers, data, and computer codes. In February, OSTP also asked
for input on the benefits and challenges of making the roughly 220,000
papers produced annually by U.S.-funded researchers immediately free on
publication, and on “effective approaches” to making that happen.
Två argument mot respektive för open access som vi sällan hört i
biblioteksdebatten
“American taxpayers would be effectively subsidizing China’s and other
competitors’ free access to American IP [intellectual property] that was
previously exported at a valuable trade surplus.”
“America is a large producer of research and therefore the publication of
America’s research output has been, to some degree, subsidized by
subscriptions paid by the rest of the world,”
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/will-trump-white-house-tear-down-jo…
Jan
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Jan Szczepański
F.d Förste bibliotekarie och chef för f.d Avdelningen för humaniora,
vid f.d. Centralbiblioteket, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek
E-post: Jan.Szczepanski63 at gmail.com