White House's open-access directive scrambles long-entrenched models | STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine
flavoursofopenscience's bookmarks 2022-10-03
Summary:
by Brittany Tang
In August, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memo directing all federal agencies to form plans to make all federally funded research publications and data publicly available without embargo by the end of 2025.
Most people who heard the news likely envisioned making a cup of coffee on Jan. 1, 2026, opening up JAMA’s or Nature’s website, and being able to read any article for free.
But that’s almost certainly not going to happen.
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