Written by Dr. Alondra Nelson, the August 2022 OSTP Memo – “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research”– provides public access policy guidance to federal agencies with research and development expenditures. Agencies held by this guidance include any federal science agency that has extramural research expenditures, tiered between those that fund under as well as those that fund over $100,000,000 annually.
OSTP recommends that federal agencies, to the extent consistent with applicable law:
As benefits for the creation and eventual implementation of these new policies, the memo offers that “immediate public access to America’s research publications and data will serve our collective goals of accelerating scientific discovery, strengthening translation and policymaking, and lowering the barriers of access to science for all of America."
Created by and published in University of Michigan’s 2022 OSTP Memo LibGuide.