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Archives: OSTP

Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust: The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Issues Guidance on AI

We are expecting the US Government’s AI Action Plan to be issued over the summer. In the meantime, we may glean some of the administration’s views by looking at recently issued information from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Apr 28, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Paywalls are Not the Only Barriers to Access: Accessibility is Critical to Equitable Access

Digital accessibility to the scholarly communications process is core to providing equitable access to the literature.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 7, 2024
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

A Roadmap for Developing a US National PID Strategy

A new report “Developing a US PID National Strategy,” outlines the desirable characteristics of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and sets the foundation for a cohesive US national strategy.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 21, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Fortune Brainstorm AI Conference: Themes and Ideas

Themes and ideas from the Fortune Brainstorm AI. “People won’t lose their jobs to AI; they’ll lose their jobs to people that are using AI.”

  • By Ann Michael
  • Dec 20, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Library Licensing Strategies

Libraries are accelerating engagement with transformative and pure publish agreements, balancing contract-based publishing support with an APC fund, and investing in the scholarly communications ecosystem.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Dec 19, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Problem at the Heart of Public Access

The intended beneficiary of public access is “the American public,” and we need so much more than access to the biomedical literature.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Dec 5, 2023
  • 17 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

SSP’s Early Career Development Podcast Episode 14: Open Access Update- A Run-Down of the OSTP Nelson Memo with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe provides a current refresh on the open access (OA) funding landscape, and more specifically on the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Nelson Memo.

  • By Meredith Adinolfi, Sara Grimme
  • Jul 18, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 2 mins

The Double-Cost of Green-via-Gold

Open access is public access. With the Nelson OSTP memo as a catalyst for Green-via-Gold, will we still need agency repositories?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Apr 25, 2023
  • 35 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — “We are ready to move forward”: A Professional Society’s Route to Open Access

The President of the American Nuclear Society explains why the Nelson Memo may cause trepidation but bring opportunity.

  • By Steven Arndt
  • Jan 24, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

We All Know What We Mean, Can We Just Put It In The Policy?

Funder guidance is too vague when it comes to identifiers and metadata. It needs to get specific to be effective.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Nov 16, 2022
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Speculation on the Most Likely OSTP Nelson Memo Implementation Scenario and the Resulting Publisher Strategies

What is the most likely scenario for implementation of the OSTP’s Nelson Memo? And what strategies will that offer for publishers?

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 27, 2022
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Thoughts and Observations on the OSTP Responses to Our Interview Questions

Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson reflect on the OSTP’s response to their interview questions, and on some implications of those responses and of the memo itself.

  • By Rick Anderson, Karin Wulf
  • Oct 13, 2022
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

New Light on the New OSTP Memo: An Interview with Dr. Alondra Nelson

Karin Wulf and Rick Anderson interview Dr. Alondra Nelson, acting director of the White House Office on Science & Technology Policy when the new OSTP memo was published.

  • By Rick Anderson, Karin Wulf
  • Oct 11, 2022
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Revisiting — Compliance: The Coming Storm

A look back at a 2015 post about approaches to improve funder policy compliance. Many of the same problems exist now as did then — are the same collaborative solutions likely to happen?

  • By David Crotty
  • Sep 29, 2022
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post – Quantifying the Impact of the OSTP Policy

The new US policy on access to research publications suggests an acceleration in the shift toward open access. Christos Petrou examines what that would look like in different fields and for different journals.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • Sep 13, 2022
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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