What is the point of openly available academic

3 “The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of scientific research their tax dollars have paid for. That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better account for and manage the digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research.” February 22nd 2013

“But taxpayers who are paying for that research will want to see something back. Directly – through open access to results and data. And indirectly – through making science work better for all of us. That’s why we will require open access to all publications stemming from EU-funded research. That’s why we will progressively open access to the research data, too. And why we’re asking national funding bodies to do the same.” Neelie Kroes. Vice President for the Eurpoean Commission

Valen, Dan; Blanchat, Kelly (2015): Overview of OSTP Responses. figshare. Retrieved 16:10, Aug 14, 2015 (GMT)

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1.Recommended open access to scholarly papers of publicly funded research 2.Recommended open access to all digital outputs of publicly funded research 3.Mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly funded research 4.Mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly funded research 5.Enforced, mandated open access to scholarly papers of publicly funded research 6.Enforced, mandated open access to all digital outputs of publicly funded research The Open Academic Tidal Wave

Some of the publishers we work with

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Some basic things that need to happen…

APIs are essential

Open access is essential

Persistent identifiers are essential

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