Category Archives: OSTP

My input for the OSTP RFI on reproducibility

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Victoria Stodden

Until Sept 23 2014, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Whitehouse was accepting comments on their “Strategy for American Innovation.” My submitted comments on one part of that RFI, section 11 follow (with minor corrections): “11) … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Intellectual Property, Law, Open Data, Open Science, OSTP, Reproducible Research, Scientific Method | 2 Comments

Changes in the Research Process Must Come From the Scientific Community, not Federal Regulation

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Victoria Stodden

I wrote this piece as an invited policy article for a major journal but they declined to publish it. It’s still very much a draft and they made some suggestions, but since realistically I won’t be able to get back … Continue reading →

Posted in Intellectual Property, Law, Open Data, Open Science, OSTP, Reproducible Research | 5 Comments

Regulatory steps toward open science and reproducibility: we need a science cloud

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Victoria Stodden

This past January Obama signed the America COMPETES Re-authorization Act. It contains two interesting sections that advance the notions of open data and the federal role in supporting online access to scientific archives: 103 and 104, which read in part: … Continue reading →

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Post 3: The OSTP’s call for comments regarding Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government

Posted on January 7, 2010 by vcs

The following comments were posted in response to the OSTP’s call as posted here: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/RFI%20Final%20for%20FR.pdf. The first wave, comments posted here, asked for feedback on implementation issues. The second wave requested input on Features and Technology (our post is here). … Continue reading →

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Post 2: The OSTP’s call for comments regarding Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government

Posted on December 28, 2009 by vcs

The following comments were posted in response to the second wave of the OSTP’s call as posted here: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/RFI%20Final%20for%20FR.pdf. The first wave, comments posted here and on the OSTP site here (scroll to the second last comment), asked for feedback … Continue reading →

Posted in Intellectual Property, Law, Open Science, OSTP, Reproducible Research, Scientific Method, Software, Statistics, Technology | 4 Comments

The OSTP's call for comments regarding Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government

Posted on December 21, 2009 by vcs

The following comments were posted in response to the OSTP’s call as posted here: http://www.ostp.gov/galleries/default-file/RFI%20Final%20for%20FR.pdf: Open access to our body of federally funded research, including not only published papers but also any supporting data and code, is imperative, not just … Continue reading →

Posted in Intellectual Property, Law, Open Science, OSTP, Reproducible Research, Scientific Method, Uncategorized | 4 Comments