OSTP Requests Comments on Open Access Publishing

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) Subcommittee on Open Science (SOS) are requesting recommendations on approaches for ensuring broad public access to the peer-reviewed scholarly publications, data, and code that result from federally funded scientific research. This is part of ongoing efforts to explore opportunities to increase access to unclassified published research, digital scientific data, and code supported by the U.S. Government.
This request for information follows a December 2019 news report that OSTP was considering an Executive Order that would require journal articles resulting from federally funded research be made freely available immediately upon publishing. In response, a coalition of 60 scientific societies, including AIBS, expressed their concerns in a letter to OSTP that this policy could jeopardize the sustainability of professional societies and the scientific and technical journals they publish. In the following weeks, OSTP Director Kelvin Droegemeier held several meetings with publishers, academics, and other stakeholders. And now the White House has issued a notice soliciting public input on its effort to improve public access to federally funded research.
Comments can be submitted on or before 11:59 PM Eastern Time on March 16, 2020. More information, including submission instructions, can be found at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-02-19/html/2...

Source: Public Policy Reports - March 2, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news