Audio overview of two articles from the George Washington University Open Source Program Office (OSPO) discussing the current U.S. policies on public access to federally funded research outputs. The first article focuses on the evolution of these policies, highlighting the 2013 Holdren memo and the 2022 Nelson memo, both of which mandate public access to research publications and data. The second article addresses the need to extend open access policies to encompass research software, arguing that open access to software is essential for reproducibility and further research.

Federal Public Access Policies

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