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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by refurb on Thursday May 05, 2016 @08:26PM (#11640790)
It was expanded back in 2013 to all federal organizations that spend more than $100M in research.

That was just an example link.

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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by rsfern on Friday May 06, 2016 @12:59AM (#11641787)
It was not expanded. i think you're referring to the FASTR bill that has not yet (but hopefully will soon be) passed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Access_to_Science_and_T...

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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by tmptmp on Friday May 06, 2016 @12:11AM (#11641642)
>>It was expanded back in 2013 to all federal organizations that spend more than $100M in research.

Why some arbitrary figure like $100M? why not $1M or $1K or for that matter even $1?

It should be other way round, if any research gets any funding (even $1 or 1 cent) then also the papers coming out of that research should be immediately released to public else they should not accept that grant/funding. The journals should not get a free ride for 1 year or so.

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