Open Access Can't Wait. Pass FASTR Now.

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-08-11

Summary:

"The proposal is pretty simple: Under FASTR, every federal agency that spends more than $100 million on grants for research would be required to adopt an open access policy. The bill gives each agency flexibility to implement an open access policy suited to the work it funds, so long as research is available to the public after an 'embargo period' of a year or less.

One of the major points of contention around FASTR is how long that embargo period should be. Last year, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved FASTR unanimously, but only after extending that embargo period from six months to 12, putting FASTR in line with the 2013 White House open access memo. That’s the version that was recently reintroduced in the Senate.  The House bill, by contrast, sets the embargo period at six months.

EFF supports a shorter period. Part of what’s important about open access is that it democratizes knowledge: when research is available to the public, you don’t need expensive journal subscriptions or paid access to academic databases in order to read it. A citizen scientist can use and build on the same body of knowledge as someone with institutional connections. But in the fast-moving world of scientific research, 12 months is an eternity."

Link:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/open-access-cant-wait-pass-fastr-now

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lterrat's bookmarks
Fair Use Tracker » Deeplinks
CLS / ROC » Deeplinks

Tags:

oa.policies

Authors:

elliot

Date tagged:

08/11/2017, 16:26

Date published:

08/11/2017, 13:38