Roundtable participants find near-consensus on free access to results of publicly funded research

Abstract

With the recommendations of an advisory committee on scientific publishing in hand, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has begun moving toward a policy that will require all federal agencies to provide free access to all scholarly articles based on the research they fund. One outstanding question that will have major economic ramifications for the publishers of scientific journals is just how long an exclusivity window publishers will have before significant contents of their journals become freely available on online platforms. © American Institute of Physics.