The petition urges the president to «act now to implement open access policies for all federal agencies that fund scientific research». (scientificamerican.com)
The funding will help 30 research - intensive universities develop open access policies and pay the author fees charged by publishers to make a paper more freely available to the public. (sciencemag.org)
Hundreds of universities around the world have adopted open access policies asking faculty to publish their research in open access journals or archive them in open repositories. (eff.org)