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There are initiatives in the EU to require -by law- that if it's public research, then it must be released to the public. And there are official guidelines on how to do so:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03318932

I believe such an initiative for chemistry could very well succeed, even if it takes 10 years.

Hopefully this can percolate to other countries and continents too, through EU's normative power.




That could be very valuable. In many ways it’s like material science and parts of chemistry are skimping along on the fumes of basic science done in the 1950’s up to the 70’s at national labs. Good experimentalists made solid careers doing core research without chasing endless grants or the latest fads. Seems pretty much all publicity available chemical and material databases comes from that era. Some specialty areas have progressed way beyond that but it’s rarely systematically collected, unless you’re willing and able to pay lots of money for private databases. Those private databases of course largely build from publicly funded research.

I hope this pans out.


It’s the same law in the US.

However just because the research is public doesn’t mean it’s easily searchable.

Someone still has to do that work.




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