petersuber · @petersuber
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Good letter from the Fully OA group of publishers opposing the attempt to cut off funding to implement the policies.
fullyoapublishers.org/2023/08/

#OAintheUSA #openaccess #OSTP

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petersuber · @petersuber
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Update. The US Department of () just issued a call for public comments on its own draft plan to live up to the August 2022 memo ().
energy.gov/articles/us-departm

#OAintheUSA #NelsonMemo #OSTP #doe #energy

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petersuber · @petersuber
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The US is rejoining (which it quit under ).
france24.com/en/americas/20230

Although the US is already strengthening its policies under the , its renewed participation in UNESCO is a good opportunity to endorse, and then follow, the UNESCO recommendations to all member states.
unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/

#OAintheUSA #OpenScience #NelsonMemo #OSTP #openaccess #Trump #unesco

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petersuber · @petersuber
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petersuber · @petersuber
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, @biorxivpreprint, and @medrxivpreprint have released their public comments on the the .

From arXiv
info.arxiv.org/about/OSTP-04-1

From bioRxiv and medRxiv
connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/

PS: There's a distinct echo of in these comments, tho without using the term. I'm glad to see it's still alive. Here's some background from 2019.
planu.org/

, ,

#OAintheUSA #medrxiv #biorxiv #plan_u #NelsonMemo #OSTP #arxiv

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petersuber · @petersuber
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The U.S. Repository Network () just released its guidelines on Desirable Characteristics of Digital
Publication .
sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploa

This is in time to influence US federal funding agencies in picking the "designated repositories" to host copies of articles arising from federally funded research.

#OAintheUSA #greenOA #green #openaccess #repositories #usrn

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Nemo_bis 🌈 · @nemobis
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The new plan for is excellent: it doubles down on and sets an example for all agencies on how to do . No need to do APCs.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/no

* allows any "type of business model"
* "clarify the official date of publication to be when the article is first published"
* "make publications available without embargo" on PMC
* "language that NIH-supported investigators may use for submission with their peer-reviewed manuscripts to journals to retain rights"

#nih #openaccess #greenOA #OAintheUSA

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petersuber · @petersuber
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2/ See the new web site tracking the federal govt's initiatives.
open.science.gov/

#OAintheUSA #OpenScience

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petersuber · @petersuber
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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy just called 2023 the Year of Open Science and summarized what the US govt will do to live up to it.
whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updat

#OAintheUSA #usa #OSTP #OpenScience

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petersuber · @petersuber
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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy () just released a useful on its August memo ("Nelson memo") asking federal funding agencies to adopt or strengthen their policies.
whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updat

#OAintheUSA #openaccess #faq #OSTP

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petersuber · @petersuber
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Congratulations to Alondra , one of Nature's "Ten people who helped shape science in 2022."
nature.com/immersive/d41586-02

#OAintheUSA #OSTP #nelson

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Ross Mounce · @rmounce
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“Library publishers have paved the way for Diamond Open Access and, by seeding a new ecosystem, NGLP is establishing equitable access to high quality publishing for nonprofits who are aligned with the scholars they serve,” says Ratan, founder of Stratos and former PLOS Publisher. “We are returning publishing to the hands of the Academy.” sparcopen.org/news/2022/next-g

#openaccess #OAintheUSA #diamondoa

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Symplectic · @symplectic
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Anubis2814 · @anubis2814
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RT @alison_mudditt@twitter.com

An amazing day for . Many thanks to @WHOSTP@twitter.com & @WhiteHouse@twitter.com for recognizing the importance of OA to research both to accelerate knowledge & to promote equity. And an enormous debt of gratitude to the many people who've worked so hard for this (looking at you @SPARC_NA@twitter.com!) twitter.com/WHOSTP/status/1562

🐦🔗: twitter.com/alison_mudditt/sta

#OAintheUSA

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Nicolas Pettiaux · @npettiaux
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RT @SPARC_NA
This is the right move, just as it was for COVID-19, but why wait for the next crisis? @POTUS @WhiteHouse We need a national open access policy to make ALL federally funded research immediately available to the public. twitter.com/WHOSTP/status/1555

#OAintheUSA #openscience #openaccess

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Nemo_bis 🌈 · @nemobis
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«The five research hubs are each led by the Energy Department's Argonne, Brookhaven, Fermi, Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge national laboratories»
uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-

Sadly only some of the DoE laboratories are "federal enough" to have output as US government works (). How much of these 600 M$ will support works?

#publicdomain #PDUSGov #openaccess #OAintheUSA #nt

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Wikimedia Italia · @wikimediaitalia
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RT @PLOS@twitter.activitypub.actor
The White House OSTP (@WHOSTP@twitter.com) has called for public comments on US federal policy, and comments are due soon on March 16!

📢 Share your thoughts on this important issue:
federalregister.gov/documents/ twitter.com/PLOS/status/121822

#openaccess #OAintheUSA

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yaso · @yaso
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RT @wilbanks@twitter.com

Oh, I see the scholarly societies are rending their garments over open access again. Here's a list of them kindly including which giant megacorp publishes for them. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

🐦🔗: twitter.com/wilbanks/status/12

#OAintheUSA

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