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Dear NDSA Members The White House Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released two public consultations in recently. One on Open Access for data and one on Open Access for publications arising from publicly-funded research. Responses are due January 2. Please spread the word. The request is for submissions from individuals or submission comments on behalf of institutions/organizations. The Coordinating Committee has submitted the attached reponse for digital data. Please feel free to use any of it that you would like for a response from your organization. OSTP says that they count the number of responses. Your response can be as simple as an email with a point or two. If you wish to simply endorse the NDSA statement, the link is http://digitalpreservation.gov/documents/NDSA_ResponseToOSTP.pdf Thank you. References for RFI. (1) "[T]his Request for Information (RFI) offers the opportunity for interested individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on approaches for ensuring long-term stewardship and encouraging broad public access to unclassified digital data that result from federally funded scientific research....Response Date: January 2, 2012...." http://goo.gl/L1jn3 ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-ALL list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-ALL&A=1