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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by tgb on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @05:47PM (#17657526)
Re: taxpayer dollars, note that in the US the NIH is the latest source of public funding for research and requires open access publishing these days. The NSF (which does not require open access) is considerably smaller, as are all other funding sources.
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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by gammarator on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @07:44PM (#17658344)
The NSF does require public access, however:

https://par.nsf.gov/ https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18041/nsf18041.jsp#q1

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Re:That $35 that scientific journals charge goes 100% to pub... by tgb on Thursday August 02, 2018 @06:32AM (#17670439)
This is fantastic! Not sure how I was unaware of this.
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