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All Publicly Funded Australian Research Could Soon Be Free for You, the Taxpayer, to Read

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the dogs-and-cats-living-together dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Phys.org:

What happens to research that is funded by taxpayers? A lot ends up in subscription-only journals, protected from the eyes of most by a paywall.

But a new initiative known as Plan S could change that. Plan S focuses on making all publicly funded research immediately fully and freely available by open access publication.

It sounds like a good idea – but there are possible downsides. This model could potentially undermine peer review, the process vital for ensuring the rigour and quality of published research. It could also increase costs of publication for researchers and funding bodies. So let's do Plan S right.

Taxpayers will have the right to see the research they paid for?

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  • (Score: 2) by https on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:33PM (7 children)

    by https (5248) on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:33PM (#807084) Journal

    Citizen. The word you are looking for is citizen.

    "Taxpayer" is a gateway meme for fascism. It corrupts people's reasoning about the role of government in a society.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:51PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:51PM (#807160) Journal

    Civilian -- the word police use. Because they see themselves as an invasion occupation army. Using the word Citizen might make them think the 'civilians' deserve the same rights as police.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @07:16PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @07:16PM (#807185)

    There is that term again. Where did you first hear it? Who is popularizing this word?

    • (Score: 2) by https on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:19PM (2 children)

      by https (5248) on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:19PM (#807267) Journal

      And here's you pretending it's not a thing like the lying liar you are.

      In case you've just got out of a thirty year stretch in jail... since about the 1990s when the Prime Minister of Australia (funny, that) was trying to freak out voters about not-white immigrants and refugees. Also, you should give https://google.com/ [google.com] a try, it's really good at answering basic questions of modern life in exchange for raping your privacy.

      Nobody is popularizing the word. It's in common usage because it's a common technique used by (mostly) fascists and racists. For some reason they haven't yet killed themselves all, or even simply just shut up. They really should. Also, we don't really have mass market flying cars yet. Sorry.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @08:59PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday February 26 2019, @08:59PM (#807256) Journal

    By that token, so is "citizen," because it discriminates against illegal immigrants.

    In a just and tolerant society, "citizen" and "taxpayer" would have no meaning, just as all identity-related taxonomy would have no meaning. "Male," "female," "adult," "child," "criminal," "law-abiding," and many other such terms have been bled of all descriptive power by our post-modernist betters. We will all be assigned an ID# in a panopticon, which will be the same as every other ID#, lest anyone put on airs about having a lower-digit ID# or something.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @12:01AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @12:01AM (#807356)

      By that token, so is "citizen," because it discriminates against illegal immigrants.

      Legal immigrants, too.