Just a couple of days, we were talking about Bill FASTR new proposal requiring federal agencies more than $ 100 million in research funding to force the final results of the study will be published in the openly six months after publication. As we have for years, the NIH (National Institute of Health) has a map that shows all the research that needs funds to publish in open access after 12 months.

However, before something happened to FASTR, it seems that the White House intervened to push an agenda more or less quite similar in a memo from the House white politics. This is a response to one of those We the people ... requests (which had suggested that support it). Dr. John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said the change in policy sufficiently clear:

today issued a memorandum (. Pdf) directs federal agencies to more than $ 100 million of spending on research and development to develop plans for results federally funded research publicly available in the 12 months after the original publication. As you pointed out, the public access policy adopted by the National Institutes of Health has been a great success. And while this new call policy does not require all agencies to copy exactly the NIH, it ensures that seem similar policies in government.

The interesting part is that, even if the plan has the same 12-month period from the plane NIH, instead of six months FASTR, it seems that The House White is really pushing agencies to go further. They do not just ask for the papers to be freely available, but the most useful as well: addition to addressing the issue of public access to scientific publications, the memorandum that organizations are beginning to address the need to improve the management and exchange scientific information produced for Federal Funding. Strengthening these policies encourage entrepreneurship and job growth, as well as promoting scientific progress. Access to data sets pre-existing can accelerate growth by enabling companies to focus their resources and efforts in understanding and using the most comprehensive discovery instead of repeating basic, pre-competitive work already documented elsewhere . For example, open data is based industry forecasts and provides great benefits to the public, and to human genome sequences available to the public has resulted in many biomedical innovations, not to mention that many companies that generate billions of dollars of revenue and jobs that go with it. In the future, greater availability of scientific data to create markets for innovative business services related to data retention, preservation, analysis and visualization, among others.

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news, although most people only focus on open access publishing party . As he says, open access to data really helps to improve all types of interesting companies and research. In the past, often publications have tried to claim copyright on the data produced by experiments as well (although technically can claim copyright on the raw data). I heard that scientists had
rebuild their own experiences because they had forsaken the "rights" to their own data from previous experiments. This is not only wasteful, it's crazy. Need for open access to data is a
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