New Federal Guidelines Boost Open Access to Federally Funded Research, and Sprague Library is Here to Help!

On August 25th, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced a major shift regarding access to federally funded research. This game-changing policy guidance, “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research” mandates that US research agencies update their public access policies as soon as possible to make publications and research funded by taxpayers publicly accessible, without an embargo or cost.

For more information, please RSVP to attend a briefing by Chris Marcum, Assistant Director for Open Science and Data Policy at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy. This briefing is exclusive to members of HELIOS (Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship), a cohort of more than 80 colleges and universities committed to collective action to advance open scholarship.

Update: the briefing will take place on Tuesday, October 18 at 2pm. Please RSVP even if you did so for the previously announced date.

Make your scholarship freely available in Digital Commons!

Currently, most US federal agencies have policies that require federally funded research to be made available to the public. This research can be housed in an institutional repository, an open access journal, or in some cases, both. Sprague Library encourages our researchers to deposit their scholarly works in our university’s institutional repository, Montclair State University Digital Commons. The mission of Montclair State University Digital Commons is to collect, preserve, archive and make accessible, scholarly and creative works, research data, and other materials produced by the faculty, staff and students of Montclair State University in order to provide free, worldwide access to the scholarly, creative, and cultural works of the University.

For guidance on making your publications Open Access, please contact Siobhan McCarthy at mccarthys@montclair.edu.

For general information regarding Montclair State University Digital Commons please visit our research guide or contact Karen Ramsden at ramsdenk@montclair.edu

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