The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) has posted all comments it received on its two Requests for Information, one on public access to research published in scholarly journals and one on public access to digital data.
OSTP received 377 comments on public access to scholarly publications and 118 comments on public access to digital data. Comments came from organizations and individuals representing a wide range of fields and stakeholders including scientists, publishers, librarians, scientific societies and companies. OSTP says that "These comments will inform the deliberations of two interagency working groups within the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC)-the Task Force on Public Access to Scholarly Publications and the Interagency Working Group on Digital Data- that were formed in response to requirements in the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010. That law, signed by President Obama in early 2011, requires that the NSTC coordinate the development of Federal science agency policies related to the dissemination and long-term stewardship of the results of unclassified research, including digital data and peer-reviewed scholarly publications, supported wholly or in part by funding from the Federal science agencies. The two groups will carefully consider all of the public comments during their deliberative process." To view comments on public access to scholarly publications see: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/library/publicaccess To view comments on public access to digital data see: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/library/digitaldata Nadine Lymn Director of Public Affairs Ecological Society of America 1990 M Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington DC 20036 202.833.8773 ext. 205 ---------------------------------------------- www.facebook.com/esa.org "Like" the new ESA Facebook page, ask friends/colleagues to do the same. http://twitter.com/#!/esa_org "Follow" ESA on Twitter. ESA eStore: Now available: "An Ecologist's Guidebook to Policy Engagement."
