[Taxacom] OSTP request for information on Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code Resulting From US Federally Funded Research

[Stephen Thorpe]

 Tom,I'm not claiming that there are no benefits to anyone (other than $$$ to some) from universal OA! Even I would benefit from greater access to the literature. But I'm looking at the big picture, i.e. the overall cost-benefit analysis. The costs in the long term to the public purse potentially runs into the $billions, $trillions even. The benefits are ... um ... "modest", to say the least!Cheers, Stephen
    On Sunday, 1 March 2020, 12:27:31 am UTC, Tom Schweich via Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:  
 
 Being an ol' retired fart with no academic connections I sometimes wish 
I had better access to the botanical literature, especially recent 
papers that might explain why this or that genus was split out, or 
merged into, some other genus.  Some of the older papers I can find on 
Biodiversity Heritage Library, of course.  Other times I get lucky and 
can see the paper in my free JSTOR account. Very rarely I can go to an 
author's personal web site and see the paper.  But a good part of the 
time, I'm stuck and cannot see the paper.  This rankles a bit because 
the authors' salaries and possibly their research grant was paid for by 
some taxpayer's money, if not mine.   So here's one data point about a 
member of the public who could reap some understanding about science if 
there were public access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications.  Puny 
I know, but there it is.

On 2/28/2020 8:54 PM, Stephen Thorpe via Taxacom wrote:
>
>>      On Saturday, 29 February 2020, 01:31:46 am UTC, Miller, Scott via
>> Taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
>>
>>    The US Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a Request For
>> Information  on Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data
>> and Code Resulting From US Federally Funded Research.
>>
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