Agencies are to work with OSTP to update their public access and data sharing plans by mid-2023. Image: Viacheslav Lopatin/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has issued a memo telling agencies to update their public access policies as soon as possible to make publications and research funded by taxpayers publicly accessible, without an embargo or cost.
“This policy will likely yield significant benefits on a number of key priorities for the American people, from environmental justice to cancer breakthroughs, and from game-changing clean energy technologies to protecting civil liberties in an automated world,” a posting said.
“This policy guidance will end the current optional embargo that allows scientific publishers to put taxpayer-funded research behind a subscription-based paywall – which may block access for innovators for whom the paywall is a barrier, even barring scientists and their academic institutions from access to their own research findings. In addition, agencies will develop plans to improve transparency, including clearly disclosing authorship, funding, affiliations, and the development status of federally funded research – and will coordinate with OSTP to help ensure equitable delivery of federally funded research results and data,” it said.
Agencies are to work with OSTP to update their public access and data sharing plans by mid-2023 and have updated public access policies fully implemented by the end of 2025.
The memo is here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf
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