The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has requested input on "enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from research funded by federal science and technology agencies" by 1/7/10 (see the Alliance for Taxpayer Access call to action, http://bit.ly/5z1GFW).
The online discussion is being conducted on the OSTP blog in three ten-day periods that cover these topics: December 10–20: Implementation December 21–31: Features and technology January 1–7: Management To post comments on the OSTP blog, you must register (http://bit.ly/7iH9Ey) and login (http://blog.ostp.gov/wp-login.php). There are also registration and login links on the sidebar of the Archive for the Public Access Policy OSTP blog category (http://bit.ly/8yf5qf) at the bottom right and on the OSTP blog home page (http://bit.ly/kKCey) in the same location. The current discussion post is "Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Implementation" (http://bit.ly/6MJOKU). As noted in the Federal Register announcement (http://bit.ly/5J1ZAp) about the solicitation, comments can also be e-mailed to publicacc...@ostp.gov. You can read more about the OSTP solicitation at "Obama Administration Potentially a Strong Voice in Open Access Debate" (http://bit.ly/5IsNOK) and "Obama's Open Government Plan Includes Open Access for Research Publications" (http://bit.ly/8ge2ae). -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/Z6HFx
