There’s been concern for some time about language attached to federal appropriations bills that would contradict the 2022 Nelson memo from OSTP and ban spending federal dollars on OSTP-mandated open access and open science.  In the present draft, the ban was stripped away in the back rooms.  Thus, it would appear that the bill, without the ban, will likely pass by March 8th as part of federal budget stop-gapping. 

Jim O'Donnell

ASU