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 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Biblist mailing list Biblist at lists.sunet.se https://lists.sunet.se/listinfo/biblist