[GOAL] Re: March 2013 issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter

[Andrew A. Adams]

Peter Suber wrote (in the SPARC OA Newsletter):
> Because Holdren is officially the Director of the White House Office
> of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), some are calling this the
> OSTP directive. That's accurate and fair. But because it would not
> have seen the light of day without the President's approval, I'm
> calling it the Obama or White House directive. Incidentally, in
> addition to running OSTP, Holdren is the Assistant to the President
> for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of
> Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/about/leadershipstaff/director

> Holdren's own title for the directive is, "Memorandum for the Heads of
> Executive Departments and Agencies". You can see why we need a new,
> snappier title. (Any ideas?)

I think we should refer to this as the White House Open Access Directive, or 
the WHOA Directive.

"Whoa, dude, that's seriously good news."

-- 
Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa at meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/