[TYPES] Signable open letter to OSTP regarding open access

[marco caminati]

On 2/24/20, Matt Might <might at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> [ The Types Forum, http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-list
> ]
>
> 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

Thank you for sharing.
Can I ask two questions (not including this one)?

1) I am not familiar with OSTP: is there a template one can use to
respond to the RFI?

2) Who can submit a comment? Anyone living in US? Any US citizen? I am
asking in order to assess where to disseminate this.

Regards,
Marco Caminati