U.S. science funding agencies roll out policies on free access to journal articles | Science | AAAS

"Two years after President Joe Biden’s administration shook up scientific publishing by calling for immediate free access to scientific journal articles produced from federally funded research by the end of 2025, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Energy (DOE) have released their final plans for complying. All other U.S. research funding agencies are expected to follow suit by the end of this month.

The NIH and DOE policies require grantees to post accepted, peer-reviewed manuscripts in each agency’s public repository as soon as they are published, among other stipulations. Research funding agencies are also expected to require immediate sharing of project data. (NIH already began to require this in a 2023 policy.) First requested by the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in 2022, the requirements mark a major step forward for the global open science movement: Nine percent of the world’s research papers have U.S.-funded authors.

Advocates of open science have offered qualified praise. But universities are worried about logistics and costs, and many publishers are dismayed."