The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), part of the Biden administration, recently announced a major new policy framework which will require all US federally funded research to be made freely available immediately upon publication, at the latest by January 2026. Dr Alondra Nelson, head of the OSTP, talks to Nature Human Behaviour about the background to and implications of this widely discussed decision.
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Horder, J. New US government open access policy. Nat Hum Behav 7, 168 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01468-7
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