From the Daily Princetonian: Researchers... who receive federal funding have had a tumultuous year. [As of January 1, 2026,] they have one more thing to balance: a new federal public access policy that could cost researchers thousands of dollars more to publish in academic journals. The new public access policy, known as the Nelson Memo, was released under the Biden administration in 2022 and mandates that any research that is funded by federal agencies be made publicly available at the time of publication. The memo is set to take effect across all agencies by Dec. 31, 2025 at the latest, although the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Energy, and NASA, among other agencies, have already implemented a version of the policy.
The Nelson Memo follows a similar policy released in 2013. The 2013 policy, however, applied only to federal agencies with over $100 million in annual research and development spending, and allowed a 12-month embargo for papers being made publicly available after initial publication. The 12-month embargo maintained journals’ ability to rely on subscription revenue from those seeking immediate access to papers.
Making research publicly available immediately upon publication, as is required by the Nelson Memo, can be costly for researchers, as many journals charge substantial fees to offset lost subscription revenue when papers are made public-access. The fees for Nature, for example, can be upwards of $12,690 per paper, while Science Advances charges authors a fee of $5,450 per paper...
Full story at https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/12/princeton-news-research-public-access-federal-funding-nelson-memo-unaffected.
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