[OKFN-IN] Fwd: Petition Response: Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research

Mon Feb 25 05:35:50 UTC 2013

Forwarding from:  The White House <info at messages.whitehouse.gov>
Date: 23 February 2013 06:28
Subject: Petition Response: Increasing Public Access to the Results of
Scientific Research
To: gutam2000 at gmail.com

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Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research

*By Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy*

Thank you for your
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the We the People platform. The Obama Administration agrees that
citizens deserve easy access to the results of research their tax dollars
have paid for. As you may know, the Office of Science and Technology Policy
has been looking into this issue for some time and has reached out to the
public on two occasions for input on the question of how best to achieve
this goal of democratizing the results of federally-funded research. Your
petition has been important to our discussions of this issue.

The logic behind enhanced public access is plain. We know that scientific
research supported by the Federal Government spurs scientific breakthroughs
and economic advances when research results are made available to
innovators. Policies that mobilize these intellectual assets for re-use
through broader access can accelerate scientific breakthroughs, increase
innovation, and promote economic growth. That’s why the Obama
Administration is committed to ensuring that the results of
federally-funded scientific research are made available to and useful for
the public, industry, and the scientific community.

Moreover, this research was funded by taxpayer dollars. Americans should
have easy access to the results of research they help support.

To that end, I have issued a memorandum today
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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. As you pointed out, the public access
policy adopted by the National Institutes of Health has been a great
success. And while this new policy call does not insist that every agency
copy the NIH approach exactly, it does ensure that similar policies will
appear across government.

As I mentioned, these policies were developed carefully through extensive
public consultation. We wanted to strike the balance between the
extraordinary public benefit of increasing public access to the results of
federally-funded scientific research and the need to ensure that the
valuable contributions that the scientific publishing industry provides are
not lost. This policy reflects that balance, and it also provides the
flexibility to make changes in the future based on experience and evidence.
For example, agencies have been asked to use a 12-month embargo period as a
guide for developing their policies, but also to provide a mechanism for
stakeholders to petition the agency to change that period. As agencies move
forward with developing and implementing these polices, there will be ample
opportunity for further public input to ensure they are doing the best
possible job of reconciling all of the relevant interests.

In addition to addressing the issue of public access to scientific
publications, the memorandum requires that agencies start to address the
need to improve upon the management and sharing of scientific data produced
with Federal funding. Strengthening these policies will promote
entrepreneurship and jobs growth in addition to driving scientific
progress. Access to pre-existing data sets can accelerate growth by
allowing companies to focus resources and efforts on understanding and
fully exploiting discoveries instead of repeating basic, pre-competitive
work already documented elsewhere. For example, open weather data underpins
the forecasting industry and provides great public benefits, and making
human genome sequences publically available has spawned many biomedical
innovations—not to mention many companies generating billions of dollars in
revenues and the jobs that go with them. Going forward, wider availability
of scientific data will create innovative economic markets for services
related to data curation, preservation, analysis, and visualization, among
others.

So thank you again for your petition. I hope you will agree that the
Administration has done its homework and responded substantively to your
request.

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