Peter Suber wrote (in the SPARC OA Newsletter): > Because Holdren is officially the Director of the White House Office > of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), some are calling this the > OSTP directive. That's accurate and fair. But because it would not > have seen the light of day without the President's approval, I'm > calling it the Obama or White House directive. Incidentally, in > addition to running OSTP, Holdren is the Assistant to the President > for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of > Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). > http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/about/leadershipstaff/director
> Holdren's own title for the directive is, "Memorandum for the Heads of > Executive Departments and Agencies". You can see why we need a new, > snappier title. (Any ideas?) I think we should refer to this as the White House Open Access Directive, or the WHOA Directive. "Whoa, dude, that's seriously good news." -- Professor Andrew A Adams [email protected] Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
