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Re:“You pay to read research you fund. That’s ludicrous” by mizzao on Monday April 18, 2016 @11:24AM (#11520621)
Preprints offer a way forward here, allowing scientists to both publish in "prestigious" venues and disseminate their work more easily:

See for example http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/science/asap-bio-biologist...

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Re:“You pay to read research you fund. That’s ludicrous” by fintler on Monday April 18, 2016 @11:46AM (#11520820)
Unfortunately, the preprint loophole doesn't really help all that much (depending on the publisher).

A few stipulations come along with publishing preprints -- for example, IEEE makes you take down the preprint and add a copyright notice to it after your paper has been accepted.

https://www.ieee.org/documents/author_faq.pdf

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Re:“You pay to read research you fund. That’s ludicrous” by mizzao on Thursday April 21, 2016 @07:40AM (#11541226)
It depends on the field, but some areas are more friendly toward this than others.
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