Recommendation: Congress and federal agencies should ensure that articles reporting on federally funded research and the data needed to validate/reproduce their results are made immediately accessible in an open and AI-ready, machine-readable format to scientists and the public. [...] When the COVID-19 crisis struck, there was a widespread assumption that researchers had ready access to all of the existing scientific articles on the coronavirus and related diseases. [...] In a letter to the scholarly publishing community sent by group March 12, 2020, it stated: “A topic of considerable interest is enhancing the ability of researchers and other stakeholders to access and re-use or text-mine all published articles on coronaviruses, 1 CSAs. [...] Importantly, this information should be in both human and machine-readable format to allow for full text and data mining using artificial intelligence with rights accorded for research re-use and secondary analysis.” The only way this group was able to gather the required articles was to request permission for their use from each publisher (a very time intensive endeavor), and then task the U. [...] • 2010: Requirement was extended to all LHHS/E agencies through the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010, and The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act called on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to coordinate with all federal science agencies to develop policies to ensure widespread public access to and long- term stewardship of the results of federally funded research.
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