Town Hall Meeting: Open Access and Open Data: What They Mean for APS Journals

For a number of years Congress and the White House have been exploring mechanisms to make scientific literature more available to the public. A mandate for achieving that goal appeared in the 2010 America COMPETES Act, and since then Executive Branch Agencies have been actively developing plans to provide such access. We will review the status of the federal plans and discuss the implications for authors and publishers. We will also report on the status of plans for requiring authors to make available publicly data upon which their published results are based.