Alondra Nelson, OSTP director (Sebastian Gollnow/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)
A push for transparency: US to make all federally-funded research public
A few months after a leadership shakeup, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is launching one of its most ambitious policy changes to date by making all taxpayer-funded research more accessible to the public.
In the eight-page memo released Thursday, OSTP director Alondra Nelson, who replaced ousted director Eric Lander earlier this year, called on agencies to make publications and research paid for with taxpayer dollars publicly accessible, for free, without any restriction.
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