Open Research Funders Group Applauds Bold OSTP Action | Open Research Funders Group

The Open Research Funders Group wholeheartedly supports the recently issued memorandum on Increasing Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research Results. The revised guidance aligns effectively with the mission of the Open Research Funders Group. Since our inception in 2016, the ORFG has served as philanthropies’ voice in efforts to make funded research more equitable, accessible, transparent, replicable, and trustworthy. Like the federal government, our members are investing in research that tackles big societal challenges, in service of building a better future. Openness is essential to these efforts. It is a lever to widen the circle of scholarship, bring more voices to the conversation, advance equity, improve public confidence in policymaking, strengthen scientific integrity, accelerate the pace of research, and take advantage of advances in computing, data science, and AI in a way that closed science demonstrably cannot.