Open Access als Pflicht: Ein gravierender Angriff auf die Freiheit der Forschung - Forschung und Lehre - FAZ

[From Google's English] "Rarely can the collapse of propaganda in the political steering of science processes as well as to study the processes that are currently taking place in the legislative process to the new Higher Education Act in Baden-Württemberg. Since first appeared on a passage in the text of the law, who wanted to force scientists to present their essays on university servers within a year online - and thus national copyright law, EU law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights just so ignored. The Open Access ideology was here for the first time dropped their pretty dresses and showed its ugly (we remain within the specified jargon) Forced-Publication-body - a declaration of bankruptcy this ideologically misdirected attack on a free publication landscape, its main investor, the so-called Alliance of self- German research organizations, let thicken the blood and it led to a public distancing ... Had they not always wordy denied that open access only 'work' could, if you would force all scientists to (because, as the wiser heads know exactly, this model would have on the much-vaunted free market itself no chance)? Had they not only last year in the copyright amendment the sleight of "inalienable republication law" enforced against all reason and celebrated it to an astonished public towards the liberation of scientific authorship - even though the author himself in a central point of his most important civil rights, freedom of contract, forfeit went?  The maximum credible accident of Open Access lie was now arrived in Vorarlberg. A reminiscent of conceptions of state contract view of science was revealed, and indeed of all the lead worked in a ministry, which is led by a green minister. Not even autocrats as once Filbinger would have dared to attempt such attacks in historically hard-won rights of individuals and in the protected by the Constitution freedom of science ... This aspect is to be manipulated by anyone, not even by state institutions, precisely in view of promoting the common good. The scientist - and only he - is responsible for its publication; decide whether, when and where he published.The state pays for him, so he fulfills this responsibility in an excellent manner.All that was ever conceived.  The mantra repeated slogan, the scientist must provide knowledge, because he would be paid by the State, is historically uninformed and systematically ill.The state ensures the frame free inquiry and will confidently, building on the experience of past centuries that no one - no college, no self-styled alliance of scientific organizations, no ministry - better know how knowledge is mediated, as the scientists themselves ..."