Department of Energy to launch free database of federally funded research | The Daily Californian

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-08-08

Summary:

"Starting in fall, all scientific papers funded by the the U.S. Department of Energy will be made free to the public a year after publication. On Monday, the Department of Energy announced the creation of the Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science portal. According to DOE spokesperson Dirk Fillpot, papers published after Oct. 1 will be added to this free database 12 months after appearing in academic journals. These publications often restrict public access through paywalls, which require users to pay to see journal content. These changes were spurred by a White House memo issued last year, which called for federal agencies to make government-funded scientific research more accessible to the public. According Fillpot, the department expects to add between 20,000 and 30,000 articles and manuscripts to the new database each year. Michael Eisen, a UC Berkeley biology professor and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researcher, criticized the department’s decision to allow publishers 12 months to make money through paywalls as a 'conservative' response to the White House memo ..."

Link:

http://www.dailycal.org/2014/08/06/department-energy-launch-free-database-federally-funded-research/

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

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Date tagged:

08/08/2014, 15:30

Date published:

08/08/2014, 11:30