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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   
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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Original Submission

• Re:Dogwhistle Re:Dogwhistle (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?

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• Lame attempt at discrediting Lame attempt at discrediting (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.

  --
  Offended and laughing about it.

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  • Re:Lame attempt at discrediting Re:Lame attempt at discrediting (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:36PM (#807275)

    Nobody is popularizing the word.

    I think it is pretty likely there is some propaganda source putting it in people's heads:

    2014: 0
    2015: 0
    2016: 8
    2017: 50
    2018: 7
    2019: 5
    https://soylentnews.org/search.pl?tid=&query=dogwhistle&sort=3&op=comments&threshold=0&sid= [soylentnews.org]

    2014: 0
    2015: 0
    2016: 3
    2017: 2
    2018: 1
    2019: 3

    https://soylentnews.org/search.pl?tid=&query=dogwhistling&sort=3&op=comments&threshold=0&sid= [soylentnews.org]

    2014: 1
    2015: 12
    2016: 64
    2017: 65
    2018: 50
    2019: 5
    https://soylentnews.org/search.pl?threshold=0&query=dog+whistle&op=comments&sort=3&start=125 [soylentnews.org]

    2014: 0
    2015: 0
    2016: 7
    2017: 2
    2018: 8
    2019: 5
    https://soylentnews.org/search.pl?tid=&query=dog+whistling&sort=3&op=comments&threshold=0&sid= [soylentnews.org]

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    • Re:Lame attempt at discrediting (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:43PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:43PM (#807276)

      Overall results may be easier to see.

      Comments per Year:
      2014: 1
      2015: 12
      2016: 82
      2017: 119
      2018: 66
      2019: 18

      Comments per Month:
      2014: 0.08
      2015: 1
      2016: 6.8
      2017: 9.9
      2018: 5.5
      2019: 9

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