Open access research: it's complicated


 

"Next month a new Obama-administration policy will give the public greater access to research funded by the federal government," write David Skorton and Glenn Altschuler in their latest Forbes blog post. "This is good news for the scientific community as well as the general public - but not all university-based research is covered by the new policy, and some of it presents far more complex transparency issues."

Read on to learn the issues raised by the new policy.