Looking ahead at Open Access and US Public Access

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-01-12

Summary:

"There seem to me to be at least two different things going on. First, the US Public Access Program is distributed, unnamed and not publicized. Second it is ideologically not popular with the OA movement, for various reasons.

To begin with, I have found in numerous discussions with OA people that there is a general lack of understanding of the Public Access Program. 

It does not help that this large federal program has no actual name. I call it the "US Public Access Program" but that is just me. ..."

Link:

http://davidwojick.blogspot.com/2018/01/looking-ahead-at-open-access-and-us.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.mandates oa.policies.funders oa.funders.public oa.nih oa.obama_directive oa.usa oa.policies oa.funders

Date tagged:

01/12/2018, 12:53

Date published:

01/12/2018, 07:53