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    Opinion: Open science, publishing, and public research support: Could Trump have it right?

    Taxpayers pony up for research they will have difficulty getting access to, and at the same time subsidize companies that exploit students, faculty members, and researchers. That has to change.
    by Robert M. Kaplan Feb 06, 2020 4 minutes
    President Trump

    In the three years since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, I have rarely supported anything he proposed. And for nearly 50 years as an academic researcher, I have almost always sided with the professional research establishment. Yet on one issue I now find myself siding with the president and opposing the scientific establishment.

    In December, E&E News reported that the president was considering an executive action requiring that all federally funded research become available to the public immediately upon publication. After all, taxpayers paid for much of this research, which could enhance their health or quality of life, and it should become open science.

    The current system allows publishers to collect substantial fees in order to provide access to articles

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