Comment Re:Was this publicly funded research? (Score 1) 38
- If so, why the fuck am I prompted to pay/log in to download the full text?
- And if so, why the fuck are these parasite website like Springer and ACS still allowed to paywall publicly funded research??
Because you only funded the research, and they're publishing the results?
Or perhaps because they need to pay for staff, keep the website alive, and send prints to the handful of universities. You know, logistics, distribution.
Oh, and they admittedly need to make boat loads of money, too. Publishing is still a great business to be into -- there probably wouldn't be any copyright laws without them.
Whichever it is, methinks it's less noteworthy than public research ending up as patent applications. (Especially when they're filed by drug companies, which rarely fund more than the last round of tests for things that public research has proven to work for all intents and purposes, the patent application, and the marketing.)
By the way, researchers with a sense of decency will post a late draft somewhere on their site. Just google its title: