""Two years after President Joe Biden’s administration shook up scientific publishing by calling for immediate free access to scientific journal articles produced from federally funded research by the end of 2025, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Energy (DOE) have released their final plans for complying. All other U.S. research funding agencies are expected to follow suit by the end of this month.""
Seems to be good news. Open access to government funded research should eliminate some amount of chaos about controversial issues . . . maybe/ maybe not . . . for example controversial medical research and UAP/UFO research come to mind. (NIH and DOE research?)
It is claimed that so-called open access to taxpayer funded research is plagued by a fly in the ointment because of commercial/government partnerships/ Government has apparently been giving some of the responsibility to their corporate partners to be "keepers of research information" that is jointly funded by goverment.
Without revising corporate law, it seems that corporations are protected from being required to disclose "corporate secrets". Never mind that corporations are being funded by government, and that they are also government secrets. Government of course has access to all that information. It is only we, the people who do not have open access.