[TYPES] Signable open letter to OSTP regarding open access

[Matt Might]

As a further follow-up, the petition succeeded, and now OSTP has
opened a formal comments period regarding a mandate for open access to
all federally funded research.

Currently, the lobbyists for the publishers are flooding OSTP
political appointees with endless objections.

They are also claiming there is no support for this from rank and file
scientists.

If you have the time, sending in a response from you and/or your
institution would be very valuable at this critical moment in the
internal policy debate:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/19/2020-03189/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-data-and-code

Please note that OSTP is also considering requiring that code and data
necessary to reproduce results be made available as well, so feel free
to weigh in on that as well.

Thank you,

Matt

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 1:23 PM Matt Might <might at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> Following up on prior discussions around open access, if you'd like to
> send a message to OSTP that you support open access, we've been
> collecting signatures on an open letter here:
>
> http://www.oaintheusa.com/
>
> I will make sure that the key players within OSTP see this. I'm hoping
> for 10,000 signatures.
>
> This has been in the works for a while, and there is momentum
> building. There's a nontrivial chance we can pull this off.
>
> Thanks for considering signing, and if you can spread this, please do!
>
> Matt