Shortly after President Obama's inauguration, he issued a memo on transparency directing his top officials to develop plans for an Open Government Directive to promote transparency, participation, and collaboration. The Sunlight Foundation has created this page in order to add a public element to the crafting of this Open Government Directive that is itself transparent, participatory, and collaborative.
We encourage you to submit ideas for what the Directive should address, and to vote for your favorite submissions below.
Require open access 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.
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To jump start this project, the Sunlight Foundation has also independently developed recommendations listed individually to the left, and detailed here.
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Support the NIH Public Access Policy. Oppose HR801. Extend the Public Access Policy to all publicly funded research (as FRPAA had proposed). Extend it also to all research output of publicly funded research institutions (including publicly funded universities).