WIKIMEDIA, DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (DARPA)
The White House has asked federal agencies funding more than $100 million of research per year to make resulting papers freely available within 12 months of publication, according to a memorandum released last week (February 22).
The decision comes after more than 65,000 people signed an online petition requesting that publicly funded research be made open access.
The decision will affect agencies including the National Science Foundation, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Energy, according to the New York Times. The National Institutes of Health already requires researchers it funds to archive their papers in the online repository PubMed Central within a year of publication in a journal, although the researchers have not always followed the rules. The other agencies will be required ...
