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posted by martyb on Thursday August 25 2016, @09:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-what-we-paid-for dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @12:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 26 2016, @12:40AM (#393261)

    Thanks, makes for better discussion when it's given and then taken back (partly).