Physics Library News

Federal Open Access Policy

White House Delivers New Open-Access Policy That Has Activists Cheering - The Obama administration says federally financed research should be made freely available within 12 months of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. From John P. Holdren, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy: "I have issued a memorandum today to Federal agencies that directs those with more than $100 million in research and development expenditures to develop plans to make the results of federally-funded research publicly available free of charge within 12 months after original publication."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf

News of Interest

• Major Periodical Subscriptions Cannot Be Sustained, Harvard Library announcement
• An Open Letter to Academic Publishers About Open Access, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 1, 2012
• Open sesame: When research is funded by the taxpayer or by charities, the results should be available to all without charge, Economist editorial, Apr 14th 2012