[Wikimedia-l] White House orders open access to federally sponsored research

[Richard Symonds]

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.

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On 22 February 2013 22:33, James Salsman <jsalsman at 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."
>
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