NASA Requires You To Pay To See Mars Curiosity Results

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http://nasawatch.com/archives/2014/01/nasa-requires-y.html

NASA Requires You To Pay To See Mars Curiosity Results
By Keith Cowing on January 23, 2014 4:08 PM. 9 Comments

Habitability, Taphonomy, and the Search for Organic Carbon on Mars, Science

"Five articles presented in full in the online edition of Science (www.sciencemag.org/extra/curiosity), with abstracts in print, describe the detection at Gale crater of a system of ancient environments (including streams, lakes, and groundwater networks) that would have been habitable by chemoautotrophic microorganisms."

Keith's note: NASA has spent $2 billion on Curiosity. But NASA allows researchers to post the research results - results paid for by taxpayers - behind a paywall at Science. You have to pay twice if you want to see what has been discovered. Too bad NASA is not interested in following OSTP guidelines on Open Data, Transparency, etc.

- A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars, Science
- Ancient Aqueous Environments at Endeavour Crater, Mars, Science

Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research, OSTP

"The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) hereby directs each Federal agency with over $100 million in annual conduct of research and development expenditures to develop a plan to support increased public access to the results of research funded by the Federal Government. This includes any results published in peer-reviewed scholarly publications that are based on research that directly arises from Federal funds, as defined in relevant OMB circulars (e.g., A-21 and A-11)."

- NASA Hides Science Behind Paywalls, earlier post
- NASA paywalls first papers arising from Curiosity rover, I am setting them free, Michael Eisen, earlier post

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. It surely ain't because they want/need the $$$

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N(A)SA wants to know who is peeking . . .

CC

[jakeXT]

2. The wheel certainly isn't in a pristine state

http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MSL/image/00521/0521MH0262000000E1_DXXX.html