ALA, ACRL Comment on Public Access to Federally Funded Research; Encourage Members to Comment

"Today, the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) submitted comments...in response to the request for information issued November 3, 2011, by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)....We recommended approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and broad public access to the peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally funded scientific research. ALA and ACRL have long believed that ensuring public access to the fruits of federally funded research is a logical, feasible, and widely beneficial goal...."