NSF advisory committee recommends Open Access 2009 January 7
Thanks to a number of tweets on Twitter mentioning it, I read on the Peter Suber’s Open Access News that the NSF advisory committee recommends OA. He says that during their December 16-17 meeting the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI) adopted the following statement:
In order to help catalyze and facilitate the growth of advanced CI [cyberinfrastructure], a critical component is the adoption of open access policy for data, publications and software.
Peter goes on to comment that “The NSF should be the next agency after the NIH to adopt an OA mandate.”
I’m happy to hear this development and hope that it comes to fruition.