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." -- Timothy Vollmer Scholarly Communication & Copyright Librarian University of California, Berkeley Doe Library, 189 Annex Berkeley, CA 94720 [log in to unmask] Pronouns: he/him