Most electronic resources (journals, ebooks) available through the NCAR Library are licensed in collaboration with the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries. They are subject to copyright restrictions and publisher terms of use.
In February 2013, a memo from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directed federal agencies with more than $100 million in annual research and development (R&D) expenditures to make publicly available the direct results of federally funded scientific research: Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research.
