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In what European science chief Carlos Moedas calls a "life-changing" move, E.U. member states today agreed on an ambitious new open-access (OA) target. All scientific papers should be freely available by 2020, the Competitiveness Council—a gathering of ministers of science, innovation, trade, and industry—concluded after a 2-day meeting in Brussels. But some observers are warning that the goal will be difficult to achieve.
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"The time for talking about Open Access is now past. With these agreements, we are going to achieve it in practice," the Dutch state secretary for education, culture, and science, Sander Dekker, added in a statement.
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"The means are still somewhat vague but the determination to reach the goal of having all scientific articles freely accessible by 2020 is welcome," says long-time OA advocate Stevan Harnad of the University of Québec in Canada. The decision was also welcomed by the League of European Research Universities (LERU), which called today's conclusions "a major boost for the transition towards an Open Science system."
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originally posted by: Klassified
a reply to: BO XIAN
A lot of big companies, corporations and governments are highly vested in some of that research, and its results. They aren't going to let it slip from their fingers easily. But for what it's worth, I think all scientific discoveries should be public domain within reason.
Perhaps new technologies making it to production and successful sales could pay a sort of tax toward publishing of future journal articles. The fee could be based on the degree of wealth that the break-through generated.
Publishing online would be rather inexpensive in most respects.
originally posted by: BO XIAN
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In dramatic statement, European leaders call for ‘immediate’ open access to all scientific papers by 2020
By Martin EnserinkMay. 27, 2016 , 2:30 PM
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In what European science chief Carlos Moedas calls a "life-changing" move, E.U. member states today agreed on an ambitious new open-access (OA) target. All scientific papers should be freely available by 2020, the Competitiveness Council—a gathering of ministers of science, innovation, trade, and industry—concluded after a 2-day meeting in Brussels. But some observers are warning that the goal will be difficult to achieve.
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"The time for talking about Open Access is now past. With these agreements, we are going to achieve it in practice," the Dutch state secretary for education, culture, and science, Sander Dekker, added in a statement.
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"The means are still somewhat vague but the determination to reach the goal of having all scientific articles freely accessible by 2020 is welcome," says long-time OA advocate Stevan Harnad of the University of Québec in Canada. The decision was also welcomed by the League of European Research Universities (LERU), which called today's conclusions "a major boost for the transition towards an Open Science system."
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LONG OVERDUE GLOBALLY, imho.
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Even the online access prices to most scientific journals--even just one article--are outrageous.
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It has sure helped maintain the oligarchy's gate-keeping tyrannies over science discoveries.
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It will be interesting to see if this is achieved while Europe is still somewhat intact and still more or less functioning as a culture. The shredding there seems to be picking up pace.
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I suspect getting that passed in the USA would take several "acts of Congress" and a lot of pressure from each scientific constituency--which I consider worse than highly unlikely.
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Ahhh well . . . sounds like some progress in a good direction.
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