Author: BRIGITTE SHULL
There is no mandate for immediate OA publication across all publicly-funded research in the US as there is in parts of Europe. However, as the recent examples of the public access language in the US Innovation and Competition Act and a memoranda from the White House on Research and Development priorities show, there is recognition that making research open extends the impact of that research and the data that underpins it. Regardless of funder mandates, the US is a major global producer of research and is therefore vital to any genuine global move to an open access world.
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