New Federal Guidelines Boost Open Access to Federally Funded Research, and Sprague Library is Here to Help!
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On August 25th, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced a major shift regarding access to federally funded research. This game-changing policy guidance, “” mandates that US research agencies update their public access policies as soon as possible to make publications and research funded by taxpayers publicly accessible, without an embargo or cost.
For more information, please to attend a briefing by Chris Marcum, Assistant Director for Open Science and Data Policy at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. This briefing is exclusive to members of (Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship), a cohort of more than 80 colleges and universities committed to collective action to advance open scholarship.
Update: the briefing will take place on Tuesday, October 18 at 2pm. Please even if you did so for the previously announced date.
Make your scholarship freely available in Digital Commons!
Currently, most US federal agencies have policies that require federally funded research to be made available to the public. This research can be housed in an institutional repository, an open access journal, or in some cases, both. Sprague Library encourages our researchers to deposit their scholarly works in our university’s institutional repository, . The mission of vlog Digital Commons is to collect, preserve, archive and make accessible, scholarly and creative works, research data, and other materials produced by the faculty, staff and students of vlog in order to provide free, worldwide access to the scholarly, creative, and cultural works of the University.
For guidance on making your publications , please contact Siobhan McCarthy at mccarthys@montclair.edu.
For general information regarding please visit our or contact Karen Ramsden at ramsdenk@montclair.edu
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