Open Access, you paid for it why shouldn’t you have access to it? | Wandering Through The Night

"Have you ever tried to access a research article to find it behind a paywall, with an access fee north of twenty dollars and a subscription process that felt like taking out a home mortgage?

Well, if so you are not alone. Much research in the United States is paid for by agencies such as the EPA, FDA, or other taxpayer funded agency, and so logically the fruits of the research should belong to the taxpayers, rather than a journal which requires taxpayers to pay an additional fee to access the information they paid for in the first place.

So…imagine my surprise when I found these four points against open access mandates for research funded by public dollars, published by the Center for Protecting Intellectual Property, from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason Unversity."