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Tag Archive: Open Access

White House Action on Open Access & Ending 12-Month Embargo on Federally Funded Science Articles

August 31, 2022/In: Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

The White House, acting through OSTP, released guidance to federal research agencies to, “make federally funded research freely available without delay.”

NSF Unveils New Public Access Plan

July 1, 2015/In: Policy /by Brian Mosley

The National Science Foundation has released a new public access plan for scientific journal articles that arise from research wholly or partly funded by the agency. This plan, called “Today’s Data, Tomorrow’s Discoveries,” is an outgrowth of an Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) memo, released in February of 2013, which directed, “each Federal […]