US agencies' science journal subscriptions canceled

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15 points·jmsflknr··5 comments

Well they don't need 'em. Hallucinated citations work just as well to support your already-reached conclusions.

mErItOcRaCy iS bAcK

Individuals can still purchase subscriptions if they feel there is value instead of relying on taxpayers for their bathroom reading material.

How would access to some of the largest journals in a field not be vital to people advising on policy decisions impacted by those fields?

I'm neither American nor of the political persuasion of its current government, but I'm not alone in seeing it odd that the outputs of research funded by my government and/or yours is paywalled so egregiously. I for one would be happy to see some disruption here.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy to see someone cancel a subscription to a closed journal. I think that any research which is publicly funded should be available for free (and without a delay either). However, I don’t think that’s why these subscriptions are being cancelled, and it didn’t sound like the original commenter was trying to make that point.

There are a lot of valuable articles I’d want government employees to have access to so they could make evidence-based decisions, which outweighs whatever happiness I might feel about a publisher losing revenue.

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