Kelvin Droegemeier (center), director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, meeting with publishers in February about public access to journal articles By Jeffrey BrainardScientific publishers, universities, librarians, and open-access (OA) advocates are waiting anxiously to see whether the Trump administration will end a long-standing policy and require that every scholarly article produced with U.S.
funding be made immediately free to all.Such a mandate has long been fiercely opposed by some publishers and scientific societies that depend on subscription revenues from journals.
But critics of paywalls argue they are expensive and outmoded, and that tearing them down is the best way to advance scientific research.On 6