The National Science Foundation has said that it will rely on publishers to make papers based on research that it has funded freely available on their own sites a year after they are first published.
In 2013 President Barack Obama directed the largest federal research funders to come up with plans to provide open access to the research they support.
To comply with the NSF policy, full text articles will be available through the journals they are published in. The agency will also maintain an archive of papers or links to papers, but that so-called dark archive will only exist for preservation and will not be publicly searchable. That stands in contrast to the open PubMed Central archive maintained by the National Institutes of Health, which led open-access policy at the federal level.
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