How are US institutions putting public access into practice? Insights from our ‘Reasonable Costs’ institutional research

"Since 2023, IOI has been working on a project with financial support from the National Science Foundation (US) titled “Investigating 'reasonable costs' to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data.” Our aim is to investigate how stakeholders, including researchers, research institutions, publishers, societies, libraries, and offices of sponsored research, are responding to guidance and forthcoming policies regarding free, immediate, and equitable access to US federally funded research and scientific data....

• Infrastructure that can support public access mandates, in particular institutional repositories, is widely implemented across the US institutions we surveyed. 
• Policy support at the institutional level is less widespread, for reasons that are unclear.
• More institutions provide financial support for meeting public access requirements related to publications than for research data, but this may be at least in part because many generalist and discipline-based data repositories are currently free of charge to use.
• Libraries are more likely than other campus units to report the impact of federal public access mandates as “noticeable” or “transformational.” ..."