Oh hell yes: White House announces new US open access policy for scientific papers

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-02-25

Summary:

"Every year, Washington pours tens of billions of dollars into scientific research projects (like the brain activity mapping project). These are projects you help pay for with taxes. These government-funded investigations give rise to roughly 65,000 peer-reviewed papers a year. Weirdly, a bunch of these remain inaccessible to you, unless you hold a subscription to the journal in which they're published, and some of these journals are pretty expensive. Today, that all changes in a big way. The US government has announced that publications from all taxpayer-funded research should be made free to read within a year of publication (a policy previously reserved for publicly funded biomedical research)."

Link:

http://io9.com/5986308/oh-hell-yes-white-house-announces-new-us-open-access-policy

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.mandates oa.usa oa.green oa.funders oa.ostp oa.obama_directive oa.repositories oa.policies

Date tagged:

02/25/2013, 16:12

Date published:

02/25/2013, 11:11