How the US federal OA policies are faring under Trump
peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-04-02
Summary:
"The federal OA policies are under Trump's control but below his radar. He has no opinion about them, and neither do his top advisors. On the other hand, he and his top advisors have a strong hostility to science, almost a resentment, and show it by cutting the budgets of the science funding agencies, taking some OA databases offline, and and even barring some publicly-funded researchers from communicating directly with the public (except through their publications). All this reduces the volume of OA to publicly-funded research, past and future.
The Environmental Protection Agency, which has an OA policy, is especially vulnerable because Trump-style Republicans believe that protecting the environment is bad for business. They've had it in their sights for years, and will either slash it or lay it down. But this shows the Trump approach. He doesn't oppose OA as such; he just favors corporations and deregulation. OA is collateral damage, along with much bigger things, like the planet."