Open Policy

I thoroughly enjoyed facilitating the discussion on open policy today. In that discussion, we touched on three main examples of open policy. I used text from the noted websites below for future reference:

NIH

· The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication.

· Policy requires papers on PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication.

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/

Federal Research Public Access Act

The Federal Research Public Access Act proposes to make manuscripts reporting on federally funded research publicly available within six months of publication in a journal.

http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/issues/frpaa/index.shtml

Brazil

The bill

1) Open License: requires government funded educational resources to be made widely available to the public under an open license,

2) clarifies that resources produced by public servants under his/her official capacities should be open educational resources (or otherwise released under an open access framework), and

3) urges the government to support open federated systems for the distribution and archiving of OER.

https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27698