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"Here’s some amazingly good news amidst all of the nonsense of late. On
Thursday, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House
announced that they were updating policy guidance to mandate that all
taxpayer-supported research should be
immediately available to the public at
no cost. According to the actual policy guidelines, US departments and agencies
have until the end of 2025 to make this change (though, it’s not clear that
there’s any remedy if they don’t). This is really huge — and it seems to have
come out of nowhere.
Long term
Techdirt readers know this is an issue that we’ve talked about for
ages. All the way back in 2008, we wrote about how research journals were
locking up publicly funded research. And, that’s kind of crazy, because if the
public funded it, then the public should have access to it. There has been a
back and forth in the government over the years, with a general movement
towards making more government funded research open-access, but often after an
embargo period (usually, private journals can publish it for a period of 12
months, and then it goes open).
Some in Congress (at the behest of the academic publishers) have tried to pass
legislation that would go in the other direction and lock up more federally
funded research.
But, with this move today, the government is going fully open."
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