No more paywalls for public research, says White House

The White House has

to make publicly funded research freely available immediately after publication, ending a loophole that let journals put it behind a paywall for a year. The updated guidance will take effect by the end of 2025, and it expands rules first announced in 2013 but criticized as insufficient by President Joe Biden.

The new Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo on public access was…