Public resources? How do you figure? Not all research public is a public resourc...

limelight · on May 5, 2016

> Anyways, if the research was funded through public money, it gets published for free anyways.

It does? I'm genuinely curious. The vast majority of research is funded with public money (to some extent).

Where is all this publicly-funded research published?

refurb · on May 5, 2016

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Now, there is a delay (1 year?) between when it's published in a journal and when it's freely released, which I can understand bothers people, but it does eventually make it's way out to the public domain.

limelight · on May 5, 2016

This seems to be only NIH-funded medical research. While it's nice to see, that's far from the only federally funded research.

refurb · on May 6, 2016

It was expanded back in 2013 to all federal organizations that spend more than $100M in research.

That was just an example link.

rsfern · on May 6, 2016

It was not expanded. i think you're referring to the FASTR bill that has not yet (but hopefully will soon be) passed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Access_to_Science_and_T...

tmptmp · on May 6, 2016

>>It was expanded back in 2013 to all federal organizations that spend more than $100M in research.

Why some arbitrary figure like $100M? why not $1M or $1K or for that matter even $1?

It should be other way round, if any research gets any funding (even $1 or 1 cent) then also the papers coming out of that research should be immediately released to public else they should not accept that grant/funding. The journals should not get a free ride for 1 year or so.