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Preprints Can Support Open Scholarship: (Part III) Open repositories could help US funding agencies to meet the requirements set by the Nelson Memo

by Claudia Lascar on 2023-04-15T12:01:00-04:00 | 0 Comments

On August 25th, 2022, Alondra Nelson, deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (released a memo titled Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.) In this memorandum to federal departments and agencies they are requested to make publications and research funded by taxpayers publicly accessible, without an embargo or cost, no later than December 31, 2025. This  chart presented below has been prepared by the University of Michigan Library, and it is  part of their LibGuide: Open Research and Scholarship. I have included it since it clearly describes the key dates indicated in the Nelson Memorandum,  referred from here forward as “Nelson Memo” or "OSTP Memo."

                                                                                           LibGuide: Open Research and Scholarship

 

On April 11, 2023, the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv, joined by arXiv, have advised US government agencies to accept preprints, as soon as possible since they are free to submit, rather than wait for peer-reviewed scientific articles to be produced. Preprints are accessed for free in the repositories, and provide equitable access to federally funded research, if funded by one of the government agencies. The government agencies do not need to wait for articles to be published in journals.

 


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