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by c517402 3143 days ago
Government research grants need to require that papers produced are available online for free. This would rapidly change the academic publishing situation.
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many funding bodies do. but what to do about older papers?
Maybe a law reducing the length of copyright on academic papers to a few years.
actually thats not a good idea. A paper may already take 1+ year to go from experiment to publication, it should be open for everyone to read immediately to be most useful - science moves fast.