White House Directive on Public Access to Federally Funded Research and Data | Association of Research Libraries® | ARL®

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-03-07

Summary:

"On February 22, 2013, John P. Holdren, Director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, issued a memorandum directing federal research funding agencies with R&D budgets of $100 million or more to develop a plan within six months to support increased public access to the results of research funded by the federal Government. On April 17, 2013, the Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and Association of Research Libraries (ARL) released a two-page statement by David E. Shulenburger calling on the research university community to provide input to the US Government for increasing access to the results of federally funded research ... In 2013, the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and ARL partnered to develop the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE). SHARE will develop solutions that capitalize on the compelling interest shared by researchers, libraries, universities, funding agencies, and other key stakeholders to maximize research impact, today and in the future. SHARE aims to make the inventory of research assets more discoverable and more accessible, and to enable the research community to build upon these assets in creative and productive ways ..."

Link:

http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/public-access-policies/federally-funded-research/2696-white-house-directive-on-public-access-to-federally-funded-research-and-data#.VPr4QlV4qMY

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

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Date tagged:

03/07/2015, 08:14

Date published:

03/07/2015, 03:14