“Why should the tax paid research needed purchased back – with new … – Helsingborgs Dagblad

The law on free access to research on time.

access to published research is getting more expensive – and it is taxpayers who will pay. But the path is thorny. No one knows exactly which system to replace today.

During the term open access together a range attempts to break with the scientific inflexible and very expensive – both for scientists and for university – system status journals.

In Sweden the work of, among others, the head of Stockholm University library Wilhelm Widmark.

– the essence of science is that it should be spread as open as possible. Today, it only becomes more and more expensive, and we have been there many large research institutions can not afford to have the materials they need, says Wilhelm Widmark.

For that, the obvious immorality of the State to pay both to carry out the research – and then read it in expensive journals.

– Why is financed with public funds have to be bought back, with new public funds?