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
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