Comments to the White House OSTP Public Access Policy Forum 27. January 2010 – 11:51 by Centre for E-Government

The Office of Science and Technology Policy Public Access Policy Forum launched a public consultation on Public Access Policy. The Administration was looking for public input on access to publicly-funded research results, such as those that appear in academic and scholarly journal articles. From 10. December 2009 until 7. January 2010, comments on the agenda below could be posted on www.whitehouse.gov/open (forum now closed):

* Implementation (Dec. 10 to 20): Which Federal agencies are good candidates to adopt Public Access policies? What variables (field of science, proportion of research funded by public or private entities, etc.) should affect how public access is implemented at various agencies, including the maximum length of time between publication and public release?
* Features and Technology (Dec. 21 to Dec 31): In what format should the data be submitted in order to make it easy to search and retrieve information, and to make it easy for others to link to it? Are there existing digital standards for archiving and interoperability to maximize public benefit? How are these anticipated to change.
* Management (Jan. 1 to Jan. 7): What are the best mechanisms to ensure compliance? What would be the best metrics of success? What are the best examples of usability in the private sector (both domestic and international)? Should those who access papers be given the opportunity to comment or provide feedback?

Although the forum is closed,  Charles Bailey collected links to 45 major institutional submissions to the OSTP consultation on OA.

• Alliance for Taxpayer Access
• American Association for Cancer Research
• American Association for Dental Research
• American Association of Anatomists
• American Association of Community Colleges
• The American Association of Immunologists
• American Institute of Biological Sciences
• American Institute of Physics
• American Library Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries
• American Psychological Association
• The American Physiological Society
• The American Society for Investigative Pathology
• American Society for Nutrition
• The American Society of Hematology
• The American Society of Plant Biologists
• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
• Association of American Publishers
• Association of American Universities
• Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
• Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
• Association of Research Libraries
• BioMed Central
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation
• Duke University Libraries
• Elsevier
• Enabling Open Scholarship
• The Endocrine Society
• Entomological Society of America
• Genetics Society of America
• Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, University of Minnesota
• International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers
• Harvard University Office of the Provost
• HONOReform Foundation
• Knowledge Ecology International
• Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
• Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
• The Ornithological Council
• Poultry Science Association
• The Publishers Association
• The Royal Society
• Royal Society of Chemistry
• Society for the Study of Reproduction
• SPARC
• University of Michigan Library
• University of Minnesota Libraries

And Steven E. Hyman’s, Provost of Harvard, response publicised on The Occasional Pamphlet.

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