This is great news indeed!



And the UC, on various levels, did strongly advocate for this policy change

https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2020/06/uc-2020-public-access-rfi-responses/



Best

Michael



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Date: Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 10:26 AM

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Subject: [SCCKG] revised OSTP memo improving access to federally funded research publications and data



Hi all:



This news is going around—the Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a new directive on Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research<https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf>.



It directs all federal agencies with R&D expenditures to develop (or update) public access policies to ensure that research publications and supporting data created with federal funds be made publicly accessible without an embargo.



Some key features:



Overall

The previous policy (2013)<https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf> covered only federal agencies with more than $100 million in annual research & development expenditures. The new policy appears to cover all federal agencies with R&D expenditures.



Research publications

Federal agencies should update or develop new public access plans for ensuring, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, that all peer-reviewed scholarly publications authored or coauthored by individuals or institutions resulting from federally funded research are made freely available and publicly accessible by default in agency-designated repositories without any embargo or delay after publication.

·  the 2013 policy allowed covered agencies to permit up to a 12-month embargo on making federally-funded research articles publicly available

Scientific data

Scientific data underlying peer-reviewed scholarly publications resulting from federally funded research should be made freely available and publicly accessible by default at the time of publication...

·  the 2013 policy did not cover research data

·  "scientific data include the recorded factual material commonly accepted

in the scientific community as of sufficient quality to validate and replicate research findings"

·  "federal agencies should allow researchers to include reasonable publication costs and costs associated with submission, curation, management of data, and special handling instructions as allowable expenses in all research budgets."



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Timothy Vollmer

Scholarly Communication & Copyright Librarian

University of California, Berkeley

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Berkeley, CA 94720

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