Harvard Library applauds new White House policy guidelines expanding research access

Harvard Library applauded a major advance for research this week, as the White House issued new policy guidelines that will expand public access to taxpayer-funded research. The new guidelines, released by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), dovetail with open access principles that Harvard Library leaders have championed for two decades.

Peter Suber, Harvard Library’s Senior Advisor on Open Access, said policies from research funding agencies are critical to the advance of open access. “Funder policies influence author decisions, and hence publisher decisions, more than any other kind of open access policy,” he explained.