Re: Who isn't being heard in the Open Access debate?

[Heather Morrison <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>]

Who is funding basic research?

According to the NSF's February 2004 Infobrief, the largest percentage of
basic research expenditures is from universities and colleges (55%), with
the second largest percentage coming from industry (14.3%), followed
closely by nonprofit-administered FFRDCs (whatever those are)  at 12.5%
and the federal government at 8.2%.  Applied research and development, in
contrast (and understandably) is funded primarily by industry.  Details
at:  http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/infbrief/nsf04307/start.htm

It seems commonsense that any industrial research that is available for
publication (i.e. not considered a trade secret) should be able to fit
with an open access model.  That is, if an article coming from industrial
basic research is submitted to a peer-reviewed scholarly journals for
publication, the reasons for doing so are probably exactly the same for
industrial as for academic researchers.

my two bits,

Heather Morrison