Seminar Is Part of Global Discussion On Scientific Journal Publication Process
Contributing to Open Access week events around the globe, the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is hosting a seminar Jan. 22 at noon to review Open Access challenges and opportunities.
This seminar will focus on the economics and current international policies and their impact on open access. One of the primary goals of open access is to strengthen science in the developing world by enabling free access to published research, especially in important fields such as medicine, environment, and agriculture.
Using the case studies of other countries’ policy attempts, the seminar will focus on the current status and future development of US policy. Specifically, it will highlight current US policies, such as the NIH mandate and the recent OSTP memorandum, as well as various legislative policy attempts to require open access publication, including the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006, 2010, and 2012 and the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2013. Building on this context, participants in a panel format will evaluate the implications of open access and deliberate future policy needs.
Overall, the aim of the seminar is to assess what the US can learn from international attempts, successes, and failures in instituting open access legislation and to develop suggestions and recommendations for future policy efforts.
More information is available here.