Open Access and Libraries

Librarians Leap to the Aid of Researchers Whose Funding Will Soon Depend on Open Access

Mary Ellen McIntire | July 30, 2015

As more federal agencies begin requiring grant recipients to make research results freely available to the public, college librarians have taken on a new role: helping researchers comply with open-access rules.

               Source: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41744               

A February 2013 memorandum from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy said federal agencies with more than $100 million in research-and-development expenditures would have to require that results be available within a year of publication.

<more at http://chronicle.com/article/Librarians-Leap-to-the-Aid-of/231997; related links: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research (Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research. February 22, 2013) and http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2015/07/libraries-cheer-passage-strong-open-access-legislation-us-senate (Libraries cheer passage of strong open access legislation in U.S. Senate)>