The USDA’s National Agricultural Library is excited to announce a second public feedback period on the USDA’s updated Implementation Plan to Increase Public Access to USDA-funded Research Results. Following the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy memorandum: Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research, all government agencies have been guided to create or update existing public access policies.

This second public feedback period is to allow opportunity for feedback from interested parties not widely heard from during the first period, including but not limited to members of the public; principal investigators; research institutions, including minority-serving institutions; research libraries; data repositories; and data scientists.

If you are interested in Open Science and increasing public access to the important research funded by the USDA, please leave a comment at Regulations.gov. Comments will be accepted until 5pm Eastern time February 28, 2024.