This new US policy is a game changer for scholarly publishing. In addition to its emphasis on immediate open access, we welcome its focus on reducing inequities in publishing, especially among individuals from underserved backgrounds and those who are early in their careers. Initiatives such as Rights Retention – supported by both funder and institutional policies – can provide a means for effectively delivering open access.

Such a strong statement, from a country that is leading in many research areas, will greatly advance efforts for global open access.

Biography

Johan Rooryck is the Executive Director of cOAlition S and a visiting professor at Leiden University. As a linguist, his main research interests lie in the interaction between morphology, syntax, and semantics, and the relation between language and core knowledge systems.

He is the Editor in Chief of Glossa: a journal of general linguistics.