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Re:Require free access to scientific articles based on taxpa... by ryguytilidie on Thursday May 24, 2012 @07:37PM (#4021156)
This is seriously the worry people have? Scribd hosts documents for free. Academia.edu hosts documents for free and in fact ENCOURAGES academics to post papers there. If a website is willing to host the papers for free versus having a system where we spend millions on research so that journals can put it behind their paywall I feel like the future has written itself already.
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Re:Require free access to scientific articles based on taxpa... by pithon on Thursday May 24, 2012 @08:33PM (#4021313)
From the petition:

"Requiring the published results of taxpayer-funded research to be posted on the Internet"

I'm just pointing out that requiring it to be posted on the internet requires someone to host it.

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Re:Require free access to scientific articles based on taxpa... by CamperBob2 on Thursday May 24, 2012 @10:40PM (#4021625)
(Shrug) Any research worth paying for is going to cost a million times more than hosting the resulting documents. I don't follow you.
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