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I had to read that twice... did a petition actually work? Regarding: "Federal agencies that directs those with more than $100 million in research and developm
by ljd 14y ago
I had to read that twice... did a petition actually work?
Regarding:
"Federal agencies that directs those with more than $100 million in research and development expenditures to develop plans to make the results of federally-funded research publically available free of charge within 12 months after original publication"
I really hope they do something easy like a REST/JSON API.
- bendmorris 14y agoWhat would be available via the API? I think this is referring to published papers becoming freely available after 12 months. I imagine the delivery will be identical to the way papers are delivered online now, but with the explicit 12-month open access mark.
- ewillbefull 14y ago> did a petition actually work No. Notice that this petition met its goal a year ago, and they never issued a response until now. It's more likely they were designing a plan and waited until they were done to respond to the petition.
- chad_oliver 14y agoWhat's wrong with "designing a plan and [waiting] until they were done to respond to the petition"? That sounds like a very logical thing to do. Better to get a measured response that a populist response.
- ewillbefull 14y agoThere's nothing wrong with planning, just that likely the petition had nothing to do with their internal discourse over open access reform. Obama's advisers probably already had deliberations going on. "Hey, there's a petition for this! Let's wait until we're done and respond to the petition." I sure hope that this petition wasn't the only reason why they decided to issue these orders.