LibGuides: Scholarly Communication Services Toolkit: Public Access Policies

Funder Mandates

See the following SCS Research Guide for campus, or refer it to others as needed.

Public Access Policies (Research Guide)

Essentials for Liaisons

Why Access to Research is Important for Libraries (ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit)
Public Access & Funder Mandates (ACRL Scholarly Communication Toolkit)
Public Access to Federally Funded Research and Government Information (Association of Research Libraries)

Workshops for Liaisons

About Public Access Mandates (Slides)
By K. Padron, Fall 2023

Funder Policies and Statements

Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research (The Nelson Memo, 2022)
Strengthening Global Sharing of Scientific Data and Research Findings (1/6/17) Summary: Principles promote access to Federal government-supported scientific data and research findings for international scientific cooperation
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy: Update on Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research (2/22/16) September 27, 2016
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Summary: Three years after the OSTP directive, policies to make data and publications resulting from federally funded research publicly accessible are becoming the norm.
U.S. Open Data Action Plan (5/9/14) Building upon these efforts, and as set forth in the Open Data Charter, the U.S. Government is releasing this U.S. Open Data Action Plan which outlines new commitments as well as plans for enhancements and releases of certain data assets across the categories set forth by the Charter.
Increasing access to the results of federally funded scientific research (2/22/13) Summary: The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of research their tax dollars have paid for. That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the results of federally funded research freely available to the public—generally within one year of publication.
Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information (5/9/13) Executive Order
Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research (5/20/12) "We the People" petition and response from Dr. John Holden, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology.
Prominent Funding Organizations Team Up to Launch Open Research Funders Group (12/15/16) Inaugural members of the Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the American Heart Association, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.