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petersuberUpdate. Bad news from the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NEH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NEH</a> for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/KnowledgeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KnowledgeCommons</a> (and the rest of us). <a href="https://about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/on-the-neh-and-our-path-forward/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/on-the-neh-and-our-path-forward/</a>"On April 2, 2025, we received notification that our NEH Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant, awarded in 2020, was terminated effective immediately…On April 10, 2025, we received further…notification that our contract to provide the NEH’s Designated Public-Access <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Repository" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Repository</a> was also being terminated…This loss is devastating…both for the financial impact it represents…but also for the unceremonious end to a goal we’d set for ourselves years ago…Not to mention the bigger picture here: that designated public-access repository is no longer needed, because it is assumed that the NEH will no longer be funding research, and thus there will be no results of research to make publicly accessible."PS: All the agencies covered by the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSTP</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a> must designate <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> repositories for their OA content. NEH was the only agency to designate a repo not hosted by the govt. All the other agency repos will be hosted by the govt, where they will be subject to political censorship or takedowns.<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DefendResearch</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GreenOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreenOA</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Takedowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Takedowns</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a>

petersuberUpdate. The Association of American Universities (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AAU</a>) defense of US higher ed is a bit better. It doesn't narrowly focus on the economy. <a href="https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/press-releases/meeting-moment-facing-americas-research-universities" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/press-releases/meeting-moment-facing-americas-research-universities</a>But it ends on a jarring note of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nationalism</a>. "America cannot afford to pause for one second in our race with <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a> and other competitor nations – nations who are doubling down on their investments in university-based research into crucial emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing."I want US research to be <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a>, and fully available to China and every other country. BTW, I want the same for Chinese research and research from every other country. Taking the nationalist argument seriously makes it an argument against OA, which also makes it an argument against current federal policy (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a>) and against the interests of all US universities. Let's defend open access, not nation-limited access. And let's defend US universities because they're universities, not because they're in the US. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academia</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Universities</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a>

petersuberUpdate. I still don't know the full story behind the takedown of the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a>. But here's a clue. The Dept of Defense (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOD</a>) continued rolling its memo-based <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> policy *after* Trump took office and *after* the memo was taken down. <a href="https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113964410103345053" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113964410103345053</a>That's a sign that agencies have not been told to stop rolling out their memo-based policy upgrades. But of course that may change. Also note that memo is preserved in the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NationalArchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalArchives</a>, for now, not just in the Wayback Machine. <a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf</a>(Yes, I'm aware that Trump fired Colleen Shogan, the Biden-era National Archivist.) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/trump-fires-the-nations-archivist-in-latest-round-of-personnel-purge.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/trump-fires-the-nations-archivist-in-latest-round-of-personnel-purge.html</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a>

petersuberUpdate The <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admin has taken down the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSTP</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a>.It was formerly at this URL. <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf</a> You can still find it in the <a href="https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@internetarchive</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WaybackMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaybackMachine</a>, as recently as Jan 18, 2025. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250118021041/https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20250118021041/https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf</a> We can't tell yet whether it was taken down because Trump officials didn't like the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> policies it laid out, didn't like its use of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> language — or both.h/t <a href="https://fediscience.org/@jnonfiction@social.coop" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fediscience.org/@jnonfiction@social.coop</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Takedowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Takedowns</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a>

Joshua Neds-FoxThe Nelson OSTP Open Access memo — directing federal agencies w/ R&D budgets to plan for day-one open access to scholarly articles and underlying data by 12/2025 — has disappeared from whitehouse.gov, as has the blog post announcing it. Both are available at archive.org, and a cursory keyword search confirms that both contain one of the now disallowed terms: "equitable outcomes" <a href="https://social.coop/tags/scholComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scholComm</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/openAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openAccess</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/nelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nelsonMemo</a>

petersuberUpdate. The Dept of Defense (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DOD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOD</a>) just released the implementation plan for its upgraded <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> policy under the Biden-era <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSTP</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a>. <a href="https://discover.dtic.mil/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/DoD_PublicAccessPlan_Dec_2024.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://discover.dtic.mil/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/DoD_PublicAccessPlan_Dec_2024.pdf</a>This is the first fed agency action of its kind since <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> took office. Note that, so far, this work has not stopped or changed.

petersuberThe US National Science Foundation (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NSF</a>) just updated its Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide, which includes the new <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> requirements to comply with the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSTP</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a>. <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/papp/pappg26_1/FedReg/draftpappg_dec2024.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/papp/pappg26_1/FedReg/draftpappg_dec2024.pdf</a>

petersuberThe National Institutes of Health (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NIH</a>) is calling for public comments on its draft new <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> policy. The NIH has had a mandatory OA policy since 2008. The new policy will strengthen the old one and live up to the 2022 <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a> from the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biden</a> White House. <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-10279.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-10279.pdf</a>Comments are due by August 19, 2024.<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OAintheUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OAintheUSA</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSTP</a>

petersuberUpdate. Here's another piece asserting "The 2022 [<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSTP</a> or <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Nelson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nelson</a>] memo requires the publication model to transition to what’s called gold <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> [in which] the cost of publication is levied against the authors as article processing charges or <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/APCs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#APCs</a>." <a href="https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/policy/121423/can-science-publishing-be-both-open-and-equitable" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/policy/121423/can-science-publishing-be-both-open-and-equitable</a>It's wrong that all OA journals charge APCs, wrong that all paid APCs are paid by authors, and wrong that the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a> requires journal-based or <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GoldOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GoldOA</a>. It requires repository-based or <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GreenOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreenOA</a>. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OAintheUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OAintheUSA</a>

petersuberThe US National Science Foundation (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NSF</a>) is calling for public comments on its updated <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> policy. <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-25267.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-25267.pdf</a>This is a preprint version of the RFI. The final version will appear later today at this URL: <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2023-25267/request-for-information-public-access-plan-20-ensuring-open-immediate-and-equitable-access-to" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2023-25267/request-for-information-public-access-plan-20-ensuring-open-immediate-and-equitable-access-to</a>UPDATE: The final version is now online at the second URL above.<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSTP</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OAintheUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OAintheUSA</a>

Standard ErrorCan the Nelson memo disrupt academic publishing? Read our thought-provoking chat with Philip Cohen (<a href="https://mastodon.social/@philipncohen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@philipncohen</a>), founding director of SocArXiv, on open science, preprint platforms, and the future of the academic publishing oligopoly. Visit: <a href="https://stderr-editors.com/blog/nelson-memo-and-the-dinosaurs/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://stderr-editors.com/blog/nelson-memo-and-the-dinosaurs/</a> <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenScience</a> <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicPublishing</a> <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a> <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/Preprints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Preprints</a> <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Innovation</a> <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/repositories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#repositories</a> <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/SocArXiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocArXiv</a>

petersuberThank-you to the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/IPLC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IPLC</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#library</a> directors for this strong statement in support of the White House <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OSTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSTP</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> policy initiative. <a href="https://libraries.mit.edu/news/libraries-support-3/34036/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://libraries.mit.edu/news/libraries-support-3/34036/</a>"Implementing the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a> via an <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/APC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#APC</a> model is antithetical to the equity goals so clearly articulated in the guidance memo and the values of our institutions."

SymplecticIf you're interested, we're running an ALA <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/webinar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#webinar</a> this week for <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#librarians</a> on how to prepare for the upcoming <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/OSTPmemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSTPmemo</a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonMemo</a> - register here <a href="https://www.choice360.org/webinars/new-white-house-open-access-rules-how-libraries-can-help-researchers-faculty-scale-the-paywall/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.choice360.org/webinars/new-white-house-open-access-rules-how-libraries-can-help-researchers-faculty-scale-the-paywall/</a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/PublicAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicAccess</a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/OAintheUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OAintheUSA</a>

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