Guest Post, Fred Dylla — Three Years after the OSTP Public Access Directive: A Progress Report | The Scholarly Kitchen

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-09

Summary:

"February 22, 2016 marked the third anniversary of the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum that continues to have significant impact on the communication of research funded by the US government. President Obama’s Science Advisor, John Holdren, issued the memo as a directive to the major US federal research funding agencies to develop and implement plans for public access to the results of that research — focusing on publications and data. Three years in, it’s worth noting the remarkable progress that has been made. It is also a useful time to assess how agencies and the entire research ecosystem, including the publishing community, have reacted to the directive. As with any issue dealing with our government, there are those who feel that not enough has been done and progress is too slow. On the other side of the spectrum, there is sentiment that too much is expected from our government agencies during an era where flat budgets are the best outcome from the annual tussle in Congress for the appropriations for these agencies from the public treasury. From my perspective, much of the criticism of the OSTP memo and subsequent agency plans is misguided. Complaints that these are not 'open access' plans miss the point – this is not, nor was it ever meant to be a set of 'open access' plans. The phrase 'open access' never appears in the OSTP memo, and the phrase 'public access' was instead deliberately used ..."

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http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/03/08/guest-post-fred-dylla-three-years-after-the-ostp-public-access-directive-a-progress-report/

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Date tagged:

03/09/2016, 08:51

Date published:

03/09/2016, 03:51