Major changes!In 2026, US -funded thesis will be open immediately for free

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On August 25, the U.S. government issued a new policy on the opening of the paper, asking the country to fund the research to the public immediately after the publication, and ensure that the policy is in place by the end of 2025.

This is a major adjustment to the reader's subscription fee to readers in the first year of the first year of academic journals in the first year after the paper was published.

The US government may be the largest scientific research funder in the world, and this policy will promote open acquisition (OA).

Scientific people believe that it has changed the rules of the game of academic publishing.

The White House Science and Technology Policy Office (OSTP) pointed out in the guidance policy that each institution can develop its own specific operating procedures, which will be completed within 6 months to 1 year.

The United States provides tens of billions of dollars of funds for cutting -edge research each year.

OSTP Agent head Alondra Nelson stated in a statement that there should be no delay or obstacles between the US public and their research investment returns.

OSTP said that the new policy was formulated by multiple federal agencies in the past year.

The policy will promote innovation and increase transparency by ensuring that everyone can obtain taxpayer funding for taxpayers.

Those who track OA trends are looking at how the US policy will change the entire scientific publishing industry.

Relevant persons believe that this depends to a large extent on the publisher's reaction.

So far, most journal publishers have responded that they are committed to providing researchers with OA options.

However, some people said that they want US institutions to provide more funds for OA publishing.

A spokesman for Ais Weimer, the world's largest scientific publisher, said the company actively supports the open acquisition of research and looks forward to cooperating with OSTP to understand relevant policy guidance.

Theoretically, focusing on the public knowledge base that can accommodate the papers that can be accepted and peer evaluated, the journals can continue to collect subscription fees from the institution and charge the final papers.

Lisa Hinchliffe, the book administrator of the University of Illinois -Champagne, believes that this will help accelerate the transformation of the dissertation publishing system to fully open the journal.

It is unclear whether the US -funded institutions or libraries will increase their help to researchers.

These researchers need to pay the prepaid papers published by OA published by most journals.

Relevant sources predict that this will give birth to an ecosystem of a mixed business model.

Some journals will adopt a model that does not charge the author according to the thesis, such as signing a batch contract with the library.

The American Publisher Association issued a statement saying that OSTP's policy may threaten the accuracy, quality, and publication of the journal.

However, Sudip Parikh, chief executive of the American Science Promotion Association, said in a statement: "We believe that it is too early to judge whether this guidelines will affect the journal. Methods."

"China Science News" (2022-08-29 The 1st edition of the news)

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