Publicly Funded Research Soon Will Be Available to the Public, Without Delay

"In just three years, the White House will require all papers describing federally funded research to be made available to the public without charge. This major shift, decades in the making, means the public will no longer have to pay twice for federal research – once to fund it, and again to see the outcome of it.

Goodbye, paywalls.

Through the University of Virginia Library and the School of Data Science, University researchers have been championing this idea – sometimes called “open scholarship” – for decades, believing research funded by the public should benefit the public, and more important, be available to the public right away...."