Thursday, August 13 at 3pm ET; REGISTER HERE
Federal public access policy rests on a legal architecture that most authors and institutions never see: the Federal Purpose License, the Uniform Guidance at 2 CFR Part 200, and the agency policies built on top of them, including the NIH policy that took effect in July 2025. In addition to this federal legal architecture, institutional policy can play a substantive role in supporting authors in compliance, specifically university IP policies.
Drawing on the Authors Alliance and SPARC white paper series, this session explains how the current system works and how authors and institutions might balance risks. We will cover the basis for the Federal Purpose License and federal public access mandates and why legal challenges against them are unlikely to be successful; the question of who owns academic scholarly works and what it means for institutional IP policies; and practical compliance strategies for authors and institutions when publishing agreements resist immediate deposit. We will also cover how these policies fit into the broader federal research funding landscape, including the recent changes to grant funding rules proposed by OMB.
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