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I wonder whether production of this paywalled work was funded with tax money.

I tried reading it, sadly it appears to demand €14.00 for 24h access and is not even making clear whether I would be able to download DRM free text.

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It most certainly is funded with tax money. This usually means that the work has to be publicly accessible. Which it is on https://arxiv.org. I agree that the fees journals charge to access (even your own) work is absurd, but it's not something most astronomers worry about. astro-ph is where it happens. I don't know about other fields, but the arXiv is really fantastic for astronomy/astrophysics.

> This usually means that the work has to be publicly accessible.

False. There is mo such has to. Although europe is making progress in that direction.

> Which it is on https://arxiv.org.

Often false. Arxiv only captures a fraction of disciplines.

Email the authors. They will often send you the document for free.

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