Yes, and to be realistic, the researchers themselves are in a very competitive environment. Having done many years of graduate work, I realize just how hard it is for doctoral and post-doc students to break into a good position at a research university, but that's just the beginning. There is serious competition after that for tenure and grants.
Who want's to spend time dealing with FOIA (freedom of information act) requests from kooky skeptics while worrying that some other researcher will scoop your research? There are structural impediments in our university research environments to completely open science.
However, I'm hopeful because of the success that the software community has had with open software. Before Richard Stallman started the Free Software Foundation I would never have believed that such a transformation of the industry was possible.
Who want's to spend time dealing with FOIA (freedom of information act) requests from kooky skeptics while worrying that some other researcher will scoop your research? There are structural impediments in our university research environments to completely open science.
However, I'm hopeful because of the success that the software community has had with open software. Before Richard Stallman started the Free Software Foundation I would never have believed that such a transformation of the industry was possible.