[aurelius83]

I’m not sure how I feel about this. On one hand this is great for transparency and progress but this is also paid for by US taxpayers so why should scientist/people outside of the US benefit?

[mattwilsonn888]

What is access like now, anyone can pay to access regardless of citizenship? If so, then it would seem most US citizens are paying twice to access the research anyways - the same deal as foreign countries. If this makes it free for everyone it's not really changing (most) anyone's relative cost - assuming I'm correct on the first point.

[prepend]

It’s not like the taxpayer was getting any monetary benefit from publishing with Elsevier. A private company was making money, not the scientist or government.

[joe_guy]

Why should they not?

[aurelius83]

Because they are not paying for the research with their taxes and their governments are not reciprocating the openness.

[Qem]

Well, any country with import/export tariffs have people across the world that are taxpayers even if they are not citizens.

[nl]

Scientific progress is not a zero sum game.

[JumpCrisscross]

> this is also paid for by US taxpayers so why should scientist/people outside of the US benefit?

Moral high ground?