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Aug 25, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Regarding this: "OSTP is leading a coordination process to ensure that public access policies are accompanied by support for more vulnerable members of the research ecosystem unable to pay rising costs associated with publishing open access articles,...
... "such as early stage investigators and researchers from minority serving institutions."
Aug 25, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.
Some journal publishers had long fought this open access requirement, fearing it would harm their subscription business model...
Apr 9, 2021 • 36 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: Here is a first look at some science-related items in the "skinny" budget request that Biden White House released this morning. Found here: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
Proposes new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health within NIH. With an initial focus on cancer & other diseases such as diabetes & Alzheimer’s... " would drive transformational innovation in health research & speed application & implementation of health breakthroughs.