IOI's “Reasonable Costs” Project: Insights and Wrap-Up

"After two years of intensive research, Invest in Open Infrastructure's project titled “Investigating 'reasonable costs' to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data” has concluded. The “Reasonable Costs” project delivers crucial insights into one of the most pressing questions in scholarly communication: What does it actually cost to make federally funded research immediately and freely accessible? The findings, supported by a $299,454 National Science Foundation (US) grant, paint a complex picture of an ecosystem in transition—one where the path to compliance with public access mandates is far from straightforward."