ugh. quanta. That, medium.com, and one other that keeps getting posted to HN news that I can't remember the name... it's all just pablum for the TED crowd.
You're not sure but most of us do understand what 'tax dollars' means and apply the 'function' according to our status. Some research supported by private organizations? I had no idea.
Is there any group lobbying for an open source proviso from results derived from a certain threshold of government research funding? That feels like a no-brainer to me, and one which could have enormously positive economic impact.
> There are many other organizations, such as SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Institute) and the Open Society Foundations, that work tirelessly for progress in Open Access. You can find many free resources to help you learn more or to advocate for OA journals in your institution.
Except it creates incentives that perpetuate the publish or perish model. For example, journals no longer need to worry about if published work is interesting or has an audiance and therefore it becomes easier to publish papers of dubious value.
During your annual review, you need to explain why you only published 1 paper (perhaps in the pay-walled journal of your proffesional society) when your colleague published 3 papers in some Open-Acess journal that nobody reads.
Here's the original paper which you can't read because it's behind a paywall even though it's research supported by your tax dollars: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6237/1261498