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NASA announced last Tuesday that they would be releasing hundreds of peer-reviewed, scholarly articles on NASA-funded research projects online. The articles are entirely free to access for any member of the public.
The new service is a big deal for the space agency, which has been gathering scientific information on a huge variety of topics since it was established in 1958.
The move comes amid a greater push for scientists to make their research free to the public for others to learn from and to build upon. One computer programmer and research associate at the[sic] Britain's University of Bristol went as far as to call the practice of sealing scientific research behind a journal's paywall "immoral."
Here's hoping that NASA's decision will move the trend for open publishing in the sciences closer to the tipping point.
takyon: At NASA and Space.com. Here is NASA's "PubSpace", which links to this "nasa funded" filtered search.
UPDATE: NASA's free research trove may have broken arms trafficking rules (also at Space News):
Last week, NASA announced that all of its published research would be aggregated into a single portal and published for free. Now, according to Space News, some NASA research has had to be pulled from the Web because the agency fears it might violate export controls.
The research in question represented outputs from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. That program funds ideas like future rover possibilities, aerospace platforms, and even what interstellar flight systems might look like. Derleth is quoted as saying "We've had to remove the studies because of a potential ITAR violation by one of our fellows, so now we're going through and doing all of the ITAR checks to make sure that everything is perfectly legal."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 25 2016, @09:49PM
Editors missed a chance to combine stories:
Nasa's Free Research Trove May Have Broken Arms Trafficking Rules
https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=15506¬e=&title=Nasa%27s+Free+Research+Trove+May+Have+Broken+Arms+Trafficking+Rules [soylentnews.org]
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story [theregister.co.uk]:
Last week, NASA announced that all of its published research would be aggregated into a single portal and published for free.
Now, according to Space News, some NASA research has had to be pulled from the Web because the agency fears it might violate export controls.
The research in question represented outputs from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. That program funds ideas like future rover possibilities, aerospace platforms, and even what interstellar flight systems might look like.
Derleth is quoted as saying "We've had to remove the studies because of a potential ITAR violation by one of our fellows, so now we're going through and doing all of the ITAR checks to make sure that everything is perfectly legal."
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday August 25 2016, @10:29PM
That was thrown in the sub list after this story was added. I guess I'll incorporate it now since there are just 2 comments here.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday August 25 2016, @10:40PM
updated
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @12:40AM
Thanks, makes for better discussion when it's given and then taken back (partly).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 25 2016, @10:40PM
I know NASA didn't invent Tang, but this talk of a "potential ITAR violation" makes me think they have the recipe for it.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Thursday August 25 2016, @10:54PM
Derleth is quoted as saying "We've had to remove the studies because of a potential ITAR violation by one of our fellows, so now we're going through and doing all of the ITAR checks to make sure that everything is perfectly legal."
Interesting. I wonder what they published. The other day I found out that NASA has an opensource "mission control framework" on their Github... and it's written in fullstack JavaScript. It's called OpenMCT, [github.com] and it replaced an older project of the same name [github.com] that was written in Java. There's a neat interactive demo [herokuapp.com] (JavaScript required, obviously). I bring it up because my immediate thought was, "wait, you released your rocket-launch-coordinating web app opensource?" How pissed is congress going to be when they find out that ISIS is coordinating attacks using taxpayer funded software? TOR is kind of different, because it wouldn't be nearly as useful if it wasn't being used by the general public. With this, they don't gain anything that isn't a normal benefit of opensource (many eyes, etc.). I'm glad they're doing it, but I'm surprised that they're gung ho about the endeavor. It's a general enough tool that you could see it being useful for coordinating all kinds of illicit activites. The cartels might love it, too; all kinds of scary people have missions to control.
Yeah, inevitable-aging-programmer-responder, I know; they should have done it in FORTRAN 33. You could tell them to get off your lawn, but they've already launched.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday August 25 2016, @11:08PM
> You could tell them to get off your lawn, but they've already launched.
It did indeed get his lawn off, weeds and all... as well as the top soil, and half of the neighborhood.
Attila has nothing on NASA when it comes to gardening.