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

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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