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.

Essentials for Liaisons

Workshops for Liaisons

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)
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy: Update on Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research (2/22/16)
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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)
Increasing access to the results of federally funded scientific research (2/22/13)
Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information (5/9/13)
Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research (5/20/12)
Prominent Funding Organizations Team Up to Launch Open Research Funders Group (12/15/16)