*Public* Research

On the subject of publicly funded research and the high-price journals that research is published in...

"In a 22 February memo, John Holdren, director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), gave federal agencies until 22 August to produce plans for making the data and papers from the research they fund more accessible to the public."

Nature reports that federal agencies will be required to make research available for free one year after its initial publication. The year is a concession to journal publishers, who will have exclusive rights to distribute the work during that time. That to me seems an unnecessary delay and giveaway, but even if flawed, this expansion of access is a great thing.