Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Features and Technology

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is asking the public to address the following questions:

• In what format should published papers be submitted in order to make them easy to find, retrieve, and search and to make it easy for others to link to them?
• Are there existing digital standards for archiving and interoperability to maximize public benefit?
• How are these anticipated to change?
• Are there formats that would be especially useful to researchers wishing to combine datasets or other published results published from various papers in order to conduct comparative studies or meta-analyses?
• What are the best examples of usability in the private sector (both domestic and international) and what makes them exceptional?
• Should those who access papers be given the opportunity to comment or provide feedback?
• What are the anticipated costs of maintaining publicly accessible libraries of available papers, and how might various public access business models affect these maintenance costs?
• By what metrics (e.g. number of articles or visitors) should the Federal government measure success of its public access collections?