Alexandra Casey, The Daily Californian; Rumored executive order would change landscape of UC subscription partnerships
"Prominent Nobel laureate and chief scientific officer of New England
Biolabs Rich Roberts has no online access to a paper he co-authored
because his institution lacks a subscription to academic journal Nature
Microbiology.
Roberts is one of 21 American Nobel laureates who submitted an open
letter to President Donald Trump on Monday urging him to approve a
rumored plan to make federally funded research free of cost and
immediately accessible after publication. UC Berkeley’s Randy Schekman,
who founded eLife — an open access scientific journal — led the Nobel
laureates in their letter...
“This would effectively nationalize the valuable American
intellectual property that we produce and force us to give it away to
the rest of the world for free,” according to the letter from the
publishers. “This risks reducing exports and negating many of the
intellectual property protections the Administration has negotiated with
our trading partners.”
The letter added that the cost shift could place an “additional
burden” on taxpayers and undermine both the marketplace and American
innovation."
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