While the OA proposal at Obama CTO continues to do well, there's another way to tell urge the Obama administration to require OA for publicly-funded research.
Require open access to the results of non-classified research funded by taxpayers. Extend the exemplary policy now in place at the NIH to all federal agencies.
Oppose HR 801, which would overturn the NIH policy.
The purpose of OOGL is "to add a public element to the crafting of [Obama's] Open Government Directive that is itself transparent, participatory, and collaborative."
Because OOGL is new, the #1 proposal has only 98 votes. Hence, it shouldn't be hard to make the OA proposal rise quickly, if you take a moment to vote and spread the word.
Is this just an empty exercise in casting votes that don't matter? I don't think so. The Sunlight Foundation has a good record in working effectively for open government in the US, and I'm counting on it to fight for the ideas which rise to the top of its list.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
