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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Michael Ladisch
Scholarly Communications Officer
University of California Davis, Library
100 North West Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292
(530) 752-6385
From: Scholarly Communications CKG <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Timothy Vollmer <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thursday, August 25, 2022 at 10:26 AM
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
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.
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) 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.
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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...
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the 2013 policy did not cover research data
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"scientific data include the recorded factual material commonly accepted
in the scientific community as of sufficient quality to validate and replicate research findings"
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"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
Doe Library, 189 Annex
Berkeley, CA 94720
Pronouns: he/him