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US government reveals big changes to open-access policy

Biden administration instructs all US agencies to require immediate access to federally funded research after it is published, starting in 2026.
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  1. Jeff Tollefson
  2. Richard Van Noorden

US research agencies should make the results of federally funded research free to read as soon as they are published, the administration of President Joe Biden has announced. This is a momentous shift from current policies that permit a delay of up to a year before papers must be posted outside paywalls.

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Nature 609, 234-235 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02351-1

Updates & Corrections

  • Correction 30 August 2022: An earlier version of this story implied that the administration of Barack Obama asked some 20 federal agencies in 2015 to require grant recipients to deposit their studies in a public repository within a year of publication. This happened in 2013.

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