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DATE: July 3, 2026 at 09:41PM
SOURCE: PsiAN Psychotherapy Action NetworkTITLE: OMB's "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance" Would Reshape Mental Health Research. Comment by July 13.
On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed a rule called the Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance (OMB 2026-0034) that would rewrite how every federal agency, including NIH and NIMH, funds and manages research grants.
It would let political appointees override peer review, allow ongoing studies to be terminated at any time, restrict international research collaboration, and could bar research into mental healthcare disparities altogether. Psychotherapy Action Network submitted its own institutional comment opposing the rule, but we also need individual comments from members. The public comment period closes July 13, 2026, at 11:59 PM Eastern, and it takes about ten minutes to submit one.
What the Rule Would Do
•Section 200.205: A political appointee, not a peer reviewer, would have final say over which grants are funded, and could not simply defer to expert recommendations.
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•Section 200.340: Agencies could terminate active, multi-year grants at any time if they decide an award no longer serves "the national interest," even mid-study.
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•Section 200.432: Researchers would need advance federal approval just to attend a conference.
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•Sections 200.220 and 200.202: International scientific collaboration would be presumptively prohibited, and awards would need to fit a "domestic first" framework.
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•Sections 200.218 and 200.300: Research examining health disparities, or framed around diversity, equity, and inclusion or gender ideology, could not be federally funded.
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•Sections 200.454 and 200.461: Journal subscriptions and open-access publication fees would become unallowable costs, conflicting with the existing federal open-access mandate.
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•Section 200.204: Agencies could exempt grant competitions from public notice, narrowing who even knows funding is available.
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Why This Matters to Our FieldPsychotherapy Action Network's advocacy for depth and relationship-based psychotherapy rests on an evidence base built largely through NIH- and NIMH-funded research, including longitudinal outcome studies and research on unequal access to quality mental healthcare. This rule threatens that evidence base at every stage: which studies get funded, whether ongoing studies survive to completion, whether disparities research can be funded at all, and whether the international scholarly exchange that shaped psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory can continue.
What You Can DoSubmit your comment here: https://www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2026-0034
A strong comment covers four points:
Who you are. No credentials required, and you may comment anonymously.
•Which provision concerns you, cited by section number (see the list above).
•The concrete harm to your work, your patients, or your field.
•Your request: that OMB withdraw the proposed rule in its entirety.
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The Most Effective Structure of a comment - created by Elizabeth Ginexi:
First paragraph: Say who you are and why you are qualified to comment. You do not need credentials — being affected is enough. Examples: “I am a graduate student in immunology at [university] who receives NIH funding.” Or: “I am a member of the public who cares about federally funded medical research.” Or: “I am a faculty member whose research on [topic] has been supported by [agency] for [X] years.”
•Second paragraph: Identify the specific provision(s) that concern you by section number, and explain what they would do. You do not need to quote the rule directly — just explain what you understand it to mean in plain terms.
•Third paragraph: Explain the concrete harm. What would happen to you, your lab, your institution, your community, or your field if this provision takes effect? The more specific and personal, the better.
•Closing: State clearly what you want OMB to do. This can be as simple as: “I urge OMB to withdraw this provision” or “I urge OMB not to finalize this rule.”
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Identical or templated comments count as a single comment to OMB, so write in your own words.
The deadline is July 13, 2026, at 11:59 PM Eastern.
Read Our Comment
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The Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN) advocates for awareness, policies and access to psychotherapies that create meaningful change. They offer membership and educational events.
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Reposting from Cambridge University Press-Archaeology:
#Archaeological #fieldwork at #Chengcun spotlights how seasonal workers move between tea fields and excavation trenches, underlining the important role of locally recruited labor.🛋️ Read the blog and #openaccess article for SAA journal @saa-aap.bsky.social.
🔗 cup.org/4akpvWU
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Reposting from Cambridge University Press-Archaeology:
🆕 New #openaccess research in the #SAA journal @saa-aap.bsky.social highlights a growing digital curation crisis in #archaeology. Read the blog and associated article!🔗 cup.org/4uRYbGY
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eLife complies with all major funding agency requirements for #OpenAccess:
✅ Openly available at the point of publication
✅ CC-BY or CC0 licences
✅ Deposited to Pubmed Central and other repositories
✅ Published with funding info -
Building on our OA 101 events, we're excited to announce a new webcast series, Collections & Open Access: Resourcing Open Scholarship. We will take a deep dive into topics at the intersection of library collections and #OpenAccess. The series kicks off July 22! https://sparcopen-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6YFax1N8S7a_EDtoaMonYg
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Certain voices have long dominated #Psychology. #JPsyExp changes this by amplifying underrepresented scholars and their innovative work.
We foster inclusive research that broadens human understanding.
Submit: https://jpsyexp.org/submit/
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Victorian Poetry
63.2, Summer 2025#S2O #OpenAccess @ Project MUSE
https://tiny.one/2p96vaznCONTRIBUTORS
Emma Davenport
Monica David
James Quinnell
Elizabeth K. Helsinger
Benjamin D. O'Dell -
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Journal of the History of Philosophy
64.3, July 2026#S2O #OpenAccess @ Project MUSE
https://tiny.one/ndpan52eCONTRIBUTORS
Nevim Borçin
Can Laurens Löwe
Niccolò Fioravanti
Manuel Fasko
Peter West
James J. Dicenso
Margaret Atherton
Tad M. Schmaltz
Steven Nadler
Margaret R. Hampson
Roy C. Lee
Alfonso Quartucci
Kristin Primus
Domenica Romagni
Christian Henkel
Heikki Haara
Andrew Stephenson
Edgar Maraguat
Peter Cheyne
Nicholas Stang
Maria Alvarez -
Added to awesome-iiif!!
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last chance to catch the #magicLink for #openAccess to my Forgotten #forests feature. Tomorrow the link will turn into a pumpkin. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-forest-under-sea.html #science #ecology
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Right-wing surge sparks debate about partisanship's effect. My #OpenAccess study finds AfD support diminishes trust in the Federal Constitutional Court. #Democracy #AfD #PoliticalScience 🌐
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13540688241237493 -
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
A hydrodynamic theory for non-equilibrium full counting statistics in one-dimensional quantum systems
Dávid X. Horváth, Benjamin Doyon, Paola Ruggiero
SciPost Phys. 21, 007 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.21.1.007 -
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
A construction of single-valued elliptic polylogarithms
Konstantin Baune, Johannes Broedel, Yannis Moeckli
SciPost Phys. 21, 006 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.21.1.006 -
New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics
Irrational CFTs from coupled anyon chains with non-invertible symmetries?
António Antunes, Junchen Rong
SciPost Phys. 21, 005 (2026)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.21.1.005@sorbonne_univ_ #UPorto #LPENS #PSL #PRES #ÉcolePolytechnique #IPParis #CPHT
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"Open Access Publishing Fund Efficiency: An Expansion and Replication of Luo et al. (2022)"
https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30968
"This study’s objective was to replicate and test Luo et al.’s (2022) proposals regarding open access publishing fund efficiency, specifically the time efficiency of the overall workflow, to better understand [a] University o[…] Publishing Fund and provide actionable insights to librarians interested in establishing such a fund at their institutions." #OpenAccess #Replication -
Can we afford the future?
Last week at #LIBER202, @cameronneylon and I presented out open source analytics pipeline projecting library consortium costs into the future under different scenarios.
Using data from #CAUL and #Bibsam we show how publicly available metadata can be used to build publishing profiles and project publishing services costs.
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20957444
Presentation slides: https://tinyurl.com/liber-costmodel
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vermutlich hatten wir das hier schonmal, aber doppelt hält ja besser:
#neu & #OpenAccess
"Handbuch IT in Bibliotheken"
https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-25167
#bibliothek #IT -
CC-Lizenzen gehören zum Open Access – aber was genau erlauben sie?
Im oa.talk am 9.7. um 10 Uhr erklärt Dr. Ina Kaulen (@stabihh) die Grundlagen der #CreativeCommons-Lizenzen, ihre Einbindung ins deutsche Urheberrecht und Fragen aus der Praxis. Zudem werfen wir einen kurzen Blick auf die neuen CC Signals für mehr #Openness im KI-Kontext.
Das Webinar eignet sich sowohl für Einsteiger*innen als auch Professionals.
Mehr: https://open-access.network/fortbilden/open-access-talk/oatalk-am-09-juli-2026
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First HALathon with the ECOSEAS Laboratory
The Researcher Services Office organized its very first HALathon on May 26 in partnership with the ECOSEAS laboratory. Around ten researchers gathered to work together on their HAL profiles and on depositing/reporting their publications.
This initiative marks the beginning of a strengthened collaboration between ECOSEAS and the Office, both in the area of scientific publications and research data. Special thanks to Cécile Sabourault, Director of the laboratory, for her support!
HALathons continue with LIRCES and UR2CA
Building on this momentum, two additional HALathons were organized with the LIRCES (May 29) and UR2CA (June 25) laboratories.
For UR2CA, this was a first. In collaboration with Cassandre Château, the laboratory’s HAL coordinator, the Researcher Services Office team was welcomed to the Pasteur campus to support medical researchers in managing their HAL profiles and publications.
This session provided an opportunity to address the specific needs of this scientific community, whose publication dissemination and promotion practices differ from those encountered in other disciplines.
Annual HAL Network Meeting: Record Participation!
On June 15, the network of HAL coordinators and administrators at Université Côte d’Azur met online for its annual gathering. With 21 participants, the meeting confirmed the network’s growing vitality.
Agenda highlights:
• Statistics from the Université Côte d’Azur HAL portal
• New support formats (methodologies, guidance materials, posters, etc.)
• Recent developments: licenses in HAL and DOI assignment for thesesSeveral initiatives were identified to sustain this momentum:
• Creation of educational resources (practical guides, posters, presentation materials)
• Promotion of data papers in HAL (curation and methodology)
• Improvement of the quality of Université Côte d’Azur affiliations in HAL
• Removal of duplicate publication recordsThis momentum reflects the strengthening of the university’s HAL network and its commitment to developing support services that are increasingly aligned with the needs of research communities.
@ccsd_fr
#HAL #CCSD #DiBSO #UniCA #ecoseas #UR2CA #LIRCES #Openaccess #openscience #publication #datapaper -
A new PCI-Friendly journal has joined the list: welcome to the UISPP Journal !
They will accept submissions after our recommendation, and will tell you quickly if they will simply publish it as is, or give it a quick evaluation.
The current list of PCI-Friendly journals is here: https://archaeo.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_friendly_journals
#archaeology #openScience #openaccess