VA following the rules?

Post #401,626 by gcareaga 5/8/15 3:14:30 PM Reply	VA following the rules? The Federal Government passed open access laws to make publicly-funded research available to the pee-puhl. I followed the link to the real science at the end of the news article and got into a Springer site. I was able to download the article fine, but cannot tell what that was so because the article is open access or because I am on campus where we pay for lots of special access. What say you? Can you get access to the article (not just the abstract) in the real world? http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11606-015-3335-1
Post #401,627 by a6l6e6x 5/8/15 3:19:45 PM Reply	No, one has to pay for article. Only abstract and references can be seen. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #401,628 by gcareaga 5/8/15 3:52:03 PM Reply	Do as we say, not as we do Typical of the Feds. Thanks for checking.
Post #401,630 by Another Scott 5/8/15 4:15:53 PM Reply	Not quite right. There's no requirement that government-created or government-funded research be published in open-access journals. It would cause lots of problems if that were the case (until the big journals are open-access, anyway). WhiteHouse.gov: That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better account for and manage the digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research. It's not clear that the VA Health System does $100M in R&D each year, so even this it might not apply to them. HTH. Cheers, Scott.
Post #401,632 by boxley 5/8/15 5:41:44 PM Reply	embargoed for one year Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep

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