Provisions in both House and Senate bills

• Directs all federal agencies with extramural research budgets of more than $100 million to implement policies for increasing public access to publications resulting from research they fund
• Requires research papers to be in formats and under terms that enable productive reuse, including computational analysis by state-of-the-art technologies
• Requires production of an online bibliography of all research papers that are publicly accessible that links to the corresponding free online full text

Provisions in the House bill only

• Requires all manuscripts resulting from federally funded research to be made publicly available online no more than 6 months after their publication in a peer-reviewed journal

Provisions in the Senate bill only

• Requires all manuscripts resulting from federally funded research to be made publicly available online no more than 1 year after their publication in a peer-reviewed journal, “preferably sooner”