# Open-Access Mandates **Domain:** policy **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Classification:** Infrastructure Concept **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[OSTP Data Mandates]], [[Open Access]], [[Measurement Capacity]], [[Governance Testbeds]], [[Operational Systems]] --- ## Definition **Binding requirements that research, data, or publications funded by public entities must be made freely available**, establishing legal obligations rather than voluntary compliance. Mandates increase public access at cost of compliance burden. --- ## General Context EU open data directives, NIH public access mandate, and Plan S requirements for research organizations exemplify increasingly comprehensive mandates. Mandates aim to ensure public return on public investment. --- ## Key Insight Mandates dramatically accelerate open-access adoption but require infrastructure (repositories, standards) and clarify distribution of compliance costs. --- ## See Also [[OSTP Data Mandates]], [[NOAA Data Pipelines]], [[Computational Governance]], [[Climate Justice and Global Reparative Systems]], [[Model-Based Governance]]