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Re:Academics sharing paywalled papers with a codeword on Twi... by rubinelli on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:39AM (#10424617)
Things would change very fast if consideration for funding and tenure was based strictly on openly published papers. My understanding of current policies is that they basically force scientists in several different areas to produce content for free for Elsevier if they want to have a career at all.
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Re:Academics sharing paywalled papers with a codeword on Twi... by rsfern on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @01:53PM (#10427162)
The FASTR act in the Senate would essentially implement the funding side of this.

Changing tenure policies is also an important component in getting a culture shift towards open research.

http://www.sparc.arl.org/advocacy/national/fastr/faq

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Re:Academics sharing paywalled papers with a codeword on Twi... by kragen on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:40AM (#10424624)
That sounds like it might be a more plausible mechanism than preferential citing.
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