Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Management

On January 1, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched Phase Three of the Public Access Policy Forum. The forum asks scientists, primary and secondary publishers, librarians, universities, researchers, students, and the public to help OSTP understand when and how research articles - funded by taxpayers but with value added by scholarly publishers - should be made freely available on the Internet. The discussion turns to questions of management. Phase Three will run through Thursday, January 7, 2010. Between now and then, OSTP would like for you to address the following questions:

• Compliance. What features does a public access policy need to ensure compliance? Should this vary across agencies?
• Evaluation. How should an agency determine whether a public access policy is successful? What measures could agencies use to gauge whether there is increased return on federal investment gained by expanded access?
• Roles. How might a public private partnership promote robust management of a public access policy? Are there examples already in use that may serve as models? What is the best role for the Federal government?