Just Released: “Updated Report to the U.S. Congress on Financing Mechanisms for Open Access Publishing of Federally Funded Research”

"The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) submits this report to the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House in fulfillment of the requirement in the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying Division C of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (P.L. 118-42).

This report details developments in the open access publishing landscape since November 2023, including potential and anticipated impacts of the August 25, 2022 Memorandum to Executive Departments and Agencies titled, “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research” (2022 Memorandum) on federal research investments, research integrity, and the peer review process.OSTP has discussed these impacts to the greatest extent possible in the broader context of the scholarly publishing landscape, which is a rapidly evolving global enterprise of which federally funded research is a vital part."