Not a bad history of the NIH and OSTP moves.

Measuring the OA share of government-funded publications.

Earlier today I listened to a Community Forum on the 2022 OSTP Public Access Policy Guidance. The term ‘Community Forum’ was a bit of a stretch, as only a handful of pre-screened questions were asked, but it nevertheless shed some light on what the new ‘Nelson memo’ (named after Dr.

Currently, researchers often have to choose between publishing and science.

The Biden administration's embrace of open access raises key issues not only for scholarly publishing but also for science itself.

Public access to the results of federally funded research can accelerate scientific breakthroughs. In 2013, certain federal agencies were directed to...

SPARC is a global organization committed to making Open the default mode for all research and education, empowering people to solve big problems and make new discoveries through the adoption of Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education.

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Brown Bag Lunch presentation for researchers on how to comply with DMP and public access sections on grants, as required by the OSTP memo of 2013. Note: Many s…

CHORUS (the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) has partnered with a number of federal agencies over the past six months to help them comply with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directives requiring open access to federally funded research. The United States Department of Energy (DOE), the Smithsonian Institution, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have all reached agreements with CHORUS.