White House OSTP issues update on open access
abernard102@gmail.com 2014-04-04
Summary:
"The public has been keenly interested in the development of Federal open-access policies and has reached out to OSTP through RFI responses and other means. In May 2012, a petition titled 'Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research' was launched on the White House 'We the People' online petition platform. In it, the petitioners specifically called upon the Administration to 'implement open access policies for all federal agencies that fund scientific research.'5 That petition garnered nearly 66,000 signatures, easily surpassing the 25,000 signatures that were required at the time to guarantee a response from the Administration.
On February 22, 2013, OSTP Director Dr. John P. Holdren released a memorandum to the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies directing each Federal agency with more than $100 million in annual conduct of research and development expenditures to develop a plan to support increased public access to the published results of research funded by the Federal Government and to improve upon the management and access to scientific data produced in the course of federally funded scientific research.' Click here to read more from this March 24, 2014 OSTP memo by John Holdren.