Peter Suber - Google+ - Where are the federal agency open-access policies? …

"Yesterday was the White House deadline for a couple of dozen federal research agencies to submit draft open-access policies to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and  Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. But if you've been scanning the net to see what happened, you've seen no word. Either nothing happened, or some/many/all of the policies arrived and the White House won't talk about them in public until it reviews them. Even if some policies are late, the second scenario is more plausible than the first....I hope we can assume that the White House has now started that review. On the other hand, I hope we can also assume that when OSTP and OMB certify than an agency policy meets the guidelines, the agency will start implementing it immediately. I hope the White House will keep the public informed about which agencies have submitted policies and which are late. I hope it will share the results of OSTP/OMB review, and the policies themselves, as soon as it possibly can. It's been five years since the NIH adopted its green OA mandate, and so far only very small agencies, like the Institute of Education Sciences within the Department of Education, have followed suit. We've waited a long time for the other major agencies to assure public access to the results of publicly-funded research...."