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All publicly funded scientific papers to be free by 2020 under EU proposals

Daisymay

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Daisymay

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I originally thought this applied to the data, but I think it only applies to the published paper (i.e. the results), which isn't particularly exciting. It had me excited for a while!

I see what you mean Bob, I think you're right.
 

wdb

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I originally thought this applied to the data, but I think it only applies to the published paper (i.e. the results), which isn't particularly exciting. It had me excited for a while!

I was just reading about this on reddit, apparently it does apply to data too but presumably the purveyors of dodgy research will just cite intellectual property rights, security or privacy issues.

Reusing research data
From 2020, all scientific publications on the results of publicly funded research must be freely available. It also must be able to optimally reuse research data. To achieve that, the data must be made accessible, unless there are well-founded reasons for not doing so, for example intellectual property rights or security or privacy issues.
 

Hip

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All publicly funded scientific papers published in Europe could be made free to access by 2020, under a “life-changing” reform ordered by the European Union’s science chief, Carlos Moedas.

I think that is great. Being able to access full papers on Sci Hub has been a great boon for my pursuit of ME/CFS treatments, and for reading about the pathophysiology of ME/CFS.

By the way, the main Sci Hub site at http://sci-hub.io is currently down, but Sci Hub can be accessed at its other sites:

http://sci-hub.ac
http://sci-hub.bz
http://sci-hub.cc

There is even an onion Sci Hub site at http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion for those who want to access Sci Hub via the darknet using the Tor browser (onion websites will not work with an ordinary browser).