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On 2/24/20, Matt Might <[email protected]> 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
