Academic research funded by the taxpayer should be free to read

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Academic research funded by the taxpayer should be free to read

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The Government funds the majority of the UK’s academic research with taxpayer money. The results of this research, academic papers, are not accessible to the public because publishers charge £40 to read an article that is given to them for free. The public should not have to pay twice for research.

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You wouldn't be charged to enter an NHS hospital, why should you be charged to enter science? The British public is paying for 66% of university research (see: http://goo.gl/dnhLfw), but only 37% of it is free to read (http://goo.gl/4asiU8). Researchers give profitable publishers like Elsevier their work for free and can be charged as much as $5000 to hand over their own work (http://goo.gl/7in7LR). The policy fix: "Publicly funded research must be publicly available". More: http://goo.gl/sk1Hfa

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