> I don't understand how governments have the authority to make private companies (journal publishers) give-away their product for free.
Nobody is telling publishers what they have to do.
The directives are aimed at publically funded institutions, instructing them how public research funds can be used.
This is about the customer's money, and I imagine also in any capitalist philosophy the government as a customer has the right to decide how its own funds can be used.
Nobody is telling publishers what they have to do.
The directives are aimed at publically funded institutions, instructing them how public research funds can be used.
This is about the customer's money, and I imagine also in any capitalist philosophy the government as a customer has the right to decide how its own funds can be used.