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Re:Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free jou... by MaxBarraclough on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:29PM (#16080008)
Agree about the legitimate copyright issues, and agree about the open access chicken-and-egg.

A law would be best, that way it instantly applies to all government grants, but it could just be terms of the grant money. "In accepting these funds you agree to only publish through open access."

Re:Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free jou... by pedrocr on Friday January 05, 2018 @03:08PM (#16081230)
I disagree because it's not even just about grants. At least in Europe most researchers are government employees so I don't care if your grant money is private, open access is still a basic requirement. If you want to publish research that requires me to pay 30$ an article to access you better not be doing that from a publicly funded job.