Grants, Impact Factor, can't publish or apply for a grant because I don't have university affiliation, Exclusivity agreement, you can only upload the preprint to ArXiV because you paid a journal an application fee and they're going to take all of the returns from distributing your work with threaded comments.
What other industry must pay an application fee to give an exclusive to a government-granted Open Access research study?
You should tell them that they must pay you.
(And that they must host [linked] data, and reproducible containers, and code.)
What other industry must pay an application fee to give an exclusive to a government-granted Open Access research study?
You should tell them that they must pay you.
(And that they must host [linked] data, and reproducible containers, and code.)