NASA’s new online archive is a treasure trove of free research articles

NASA launched a free online archive for science journal articles that were funded by the space agency. The archive, which was announced this week, is called PubSpace, and it will make available research and data that are often hidden behind the subscriptions and paywalls of scientific journals. PubSpace will be managed by the National Institutes of Health as part of its own database called PubMed Central.

The decision to create PubSpace came from a request that was made by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy back in 2013. It was part of the office’s "Open Science" initiative, which was meant to increase access to government-funded research. "Scientific research supported by the Federal Government catalyzes innovative...