SCELC and the Scholarly Communications Committee (SCC) are calling on our members and institutions to urge Federal agencies to adopt the Federal Purpose License to help authors navigate changes to their publishing obligations resulting from the Nelson Memo.
From the SCC Chairs:
As Chairs of the SCELC Scholarly Communication Committee (SCC), we strongly recommend that individuals and/or institutions join SCELC in supporting the effort to use the Federal purpose license to implement the 2022 OSTP public access memo.
"We endorse the statement encouraging Federal agencies to fully leverage the Federal purpose license in their public access plans, FAQs and other supporting documentation, and grant instruments, providing greater clarity for authors and creating more robust protections of authors' rights to deposit."
Sign on to the Statement in support of using the Federal purpose license to implement the 2022 OSTP public access memo.
The Federal purpose license:
states that “The Federal awarding agency reserves a royalty-free, nonexclusive and irrevocable right to reproduce, publish, or otherwise use the work for Federal purposes, and to authorize others to do so.”
provides "clear language that supports deposit and re-use of research outputs, offers a pre-existing mechanism to achieve uniformity across federal agencies, reduces the risk of any non-compliance issues for grant recipients, and maximizes the return-on-investment for taxpayers and the public-at-large."
addresses SPARC and SCC concerns related to emerging Nelson Memo policy variation across agencies
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