{"id":13348,"date":"2022-08-27T14:41:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T14:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/27\/no-more-paywalls-for-public-research-says-white-house\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T14:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T14:41:51","slug":"no-more-paywalls-for-public-research-says-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/27\/no-more-paywalls-for-public-research-says-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"No more paywalls for public research, says White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/26\/23322194\/white-house-ostp-open-access-federal-research-policy-update\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/26\/23322194\/white-house-ostp-open-access-federal-research-policy-update<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"76.488672120831\">\n<p id=\"BylBBK\">The White House has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ostp\/news-updates\/2022\/08\/25\/ostp-issues-guidance-to-make-federally-funded-research-freely-available-without-delay\/\">instructed federal agencies<\/a> to make publicly funded research freely available immediately after publication, ending a loophole that let journals put it behind a paywall for a year. The updated guidance will take effect by the end of 2025, and it expands rules first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/white-house-unveils-long-awaited-public-access-policy\">announced in 2013<\/a> but criticized as insufficient by President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p id=\"LxWAL8\">The new Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf\">memo on public access<\/a> was released yesterday. Individual agencies must draft new policies based on it within a year, or 180 days for larger agencies. They\u2019ll govern the specifics of the deal, but they must implement several changes, including the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"N8EJsw\">If a peer-reviewed scholarly publication is based on federally funded research, it must be made publicly accessible for free upon publication \u2014 rather than allowing a 12-month embargo for academic journals.<\/li>\n<li id=\"GKKhXE\">This material must be formatted in a way that\u2019s machine-readable, making it easier to search and catalog.<\/li>\n<li id=\"I4QWMZ\">Metadata like funding sources and author affiliations must be included with the publications, helping the public understand who\u2019s backing the research.<\/li>\n<li id=\"NGXgJ4\">The scientific data underlying peer-reviewed publications must also be made available to the public, unless sharing it would cause legal, ethical, or security problems.<\/li>\n<li id=\"UOZpgK\">Research data that doesn\u2019t result in peer-reviewed work should be shared internally across government agencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"ClT4xj\">The guidance also expands the definition of a \u201cscholarly publication\u201d to cover not only peer-reviewed articles but also book chapters and conference proceedings. And unlike the previous policy, which covered 20 agencies, it applies to all federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p id=\"jKkY4A\">Publishing companies have broadly objected to open access rules, which they argue damage the financial position of academic journals. \u201cToday\u2019s announcement &#8230; comes without formal, meaningful consultation or public input during this administration on a decision that will have sweeping ramifications, including serious economic impact,\u201d said Association of American Publishers spokesperson Shelley Husband in a statement to <em>The Verge<\/em>. \u201cIn a no-embargo environment, in which private publications will be made immediately available by the government for free, our primary concerns are about business sustainability and quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"cmRqWZ\">But the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, which has long pushed for public access rules, <a href=\"https:\/\/sparcopen.org\/our-work\/2022-updated-ostp-policy-guidance\/fact-sheet-white-house-ostp-memo-on-ensuring-free-immediate-and-equitable-access-to-federally-funded-research\/\">praised the decision<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SPARC_NA\/status\/1562832730898894849\">calling it<\/a> a \u201clandmark policy guidance.\u201d Open access consortium Coalition S <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coalition-s.org\/coalition-s-welcomes-the-updated-open-access-policy-guidance-from-the-white-house-office-of-science-technology-and-policy\/\">called it<\/a> \u201cfully aligned\u201d with its principles, and it matched a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/science-sustainable-future\/open-science\/recommendation\">2021 UNESCO recommendation<\/a> for open access.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Hw7y7u\">An open access policy was championed by President Barack Obama\u2019s administration, but rules like the 12-month embargo limited its effectiveness, as did individual agency compliance. In 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-20-81\">a Government Accountability Office report found<\/a> that most of the covered agencies hadn\u2019t fully complied with the 2013 guidelines, failing to make the data easily findable or ensure that researchers followed the rules. Yesterday\u2019s update will likely face similar challenges \u2014 but for now, advocates of open access are celebrating.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/26\/23322194\/white-house-ostp-open-access-federal-research-policy-update\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/26\/23322194\/white-house-ostp-open-access-federal-research-policy-update<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The White House has instructed federal agencies to make publicly funded research freely available immediately after publication, ending a loophole that let journals put it behind a paywall for a year. The updated guidance will take effect by the end of 2025, and it expands rules first announced in 2013 but criticized as insufficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-13348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","category-technology","tag-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No more paywalls for public research, says White House - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/27\/no-more-paywalls-for-public-research-says-white-house\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No more paywalls for public research, says White House - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: The White House has instructed federal agencies to make publicly funded research freely available immediately after publication, ending a loophole that let journals put it behind a paywall for a year. 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