The Optical Society launches solution to enable public access of research | EurekAlert! Science News
abernard102@gmail.com 2015-10-03
Summary:
"The Optical Society (OSA) announced today that it has implemented a technology solution that effectively supports U.S. federal agency public access requirements and helps authors comply with governmental mandates to make their federally funded articles publicly available after a 12-month embargo. By partnering with CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States), OSA enables an option for readers and agencies to easily discover federally funded articles published by OSA and to then access the full-text of these articles directly on OSA's platform, OSA Publishing. The first wave of federally funded research articles from OSA will be made available on 1 October--exactly 12 months after the Department of Energy (DOE) implemented its public access policy--and OSA is the second publisher worldwide to complete implementation of their CHORUS solution ..."