[Wikimedia-l] White House orders open access to federally sponsored research
This looks pretty substantial: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) hereby directs each Federal agency with over $100 million in annual conduct of research and development expenditures to develop a plan to support increased public access to the results of research funded by the Federal Government. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] White House orders open access to federally sponsored research
Looks like a US version of the UK's plan described at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17921442, which Jimmy was rather involved in! Excellent news for the US if it goes ahead. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 22 February 2013 22:33, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: This looks pretty substantial: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) hereby directs each Federal agency with over $100 million in annual conduct of research and development expenditures to develop a plan to support increased public access to the results of research funded by the Federal Government. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] White House orders open access to federally sponsored research
The US and UK plans may be similar in how they affect Wikimedia projects in that both make more research publications free to read, but they differ in numerous details (e.g. on whether the publications - and what versions thereof - should be freely available from the publisher or from a repository) In short, the White House directive means that about 19 US Federal agencies will have to develop, within six months from today, policies regarding read-access to publications about research they funded, similar to the Public Access policy implemented by the National Institutes of Health in 2008 (cf. http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ ). It is not clear yet what this will mean in terms of reusability of materials from such publications, as the document is rather silent on licensing issues. For further information on the directive, see the detailed comments by Peter Suber, who puts it into the perspective of proposed similar US legislation (which, if adopted, would have a more permanent effect), introduced to Congress last week: https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/8hzviMJeVHJ . Daniel On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Looks like a US version of the UK's plan described at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17921442, which Jimmy was rather involved in! Excellent news for the US if it goes ahead. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 22 February 2013 22:33, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: This looks pretty substantial: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) hereby directs each Federal agency with over $100 million in annual conduct of research and development expenditures to develop a plan to support increased public access to the results of research funded by the Federal Government. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] White House orders open access to federally sponsored research
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:33 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: This looks pretty substantial: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) hereby directs each Federal agency with over $100 million in annual conduct of research and development expenditures to develop a plan to support increased public access to the results of research funded by the Federal Government. Yeah, this is pretty exciting. It is also a positive response to the OA petition that we promoted on the blog a while back. It's causing lots of excitement in the librarian community today: this directive means that a *lot* of public scientific research in the U.S., maybe the majority of it, will become openly accessible to the public, which is a huge step forward for OA. The NIH mandate that proceeded this was one of the biggest boosts to OA, and this is much more encompassing. SPARC (which is an academic library organization promoting OA) issued a press release in support: http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/sparc-applauds-white-house-for-landmark-directive-.shtml -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
