National Science Foundation Pushes to Make More Research Public Faster - Inside School Research - Education Week

"Most American science on education and child development is supported by taxpayers, but by the time that research makes it through peer review, much of it ends up behind academic journal paywalls.  As part of a 2013 White House initiative to speed up public access to research, the National Science Foundation on Wednesday released a plan to share data and results from NSF-funded studies. The new plan has the potential not only to help educators and policymakers find a broader array of research more quickly, but may make it easier for researchers across many education research areas to repeat and build on important findings ..."