[RCom-l] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Open Access to Federally Funded Scientific Research

[Dario Taraborelli]

Daniel,

(cc'ing Phoebe)

can you help lead the drafting of WMF's response to this consultation?

Dario

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> From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>
> Date: November 7, 2011 12:01:39 PM PST
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l at lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Open Access to Federally Funded Scientific Research
> Reply-To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> 
> Following up on last year's OSTP call for comments (which I also sent
> to foundation-l), the US government is seeking public comment on more
> technical questions (including policy, repository and standards
> development) related to sharing federally-funded scholarly data and
> publications. This process is relevant for shaping access to a major
> source of free knowledge, and such open access issues are of general
> interest to many of us. Comments are due in January.
> 
> -- phoebe
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> 
> The White House Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has
> released two Requests for Information, one on public access to digital
> data resulting from federally funded scientific research and one on
> public access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications resulting from
> federally funded research. Responses are due January.
> 
> (1) "[T]his Request for Information (RFI) offers the opportunity for
> interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on
> approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and encouraging broad
> public access to unclassified digital data that result from federally
> funded scientific research....Response Date: January 12, 2012...."
> http://goo.gl/L1jn3
> 
> (2) "[T]his Request for Information (RFI) offers the opportunity for
> interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on
> approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and broad public access
> to the peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally
> funded scientific research....Response Date:
> January 2, 2012...."
> http://goo.gl/vTP18
> 
> 
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