Salon.com > ostp http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 01:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Access to federally funded research doesn’t honor Aaron Swartz http://www.salon.com/2013/02/26/access_to_federally_funded_research_doesnt_honor_aaron_swartz/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/26/access_to_federally_funded_research_doesnt_honor_aaron_swartz/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:57:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13212876 We can all pretty much agree that making public and freely available the fruits of federally funded research is important and good. As such, we can be pleased with the recent announcement that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has mandated that federal agencies with more than $100 million in R&D expenditures develop plans to make the published results of their research freely available to the public within one year of publication.

We can also probably agree that Aaron Swartz, the brilliant technologist who committed suicide facing trumped up federal charges, who long advocated for free access to scientific research, would have been pleased with the announcement. And it's fair to say, as some commentators already have, that increased support for Swartz's open data activism since his death helped prompt the government announcement. A White House website petition calling for free access to federally funded research had garnered 65,000 signatures.

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