Open Access: Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research
Overview
On February 22, 2013, the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) released the memorandum, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research."This memorandum requires that federal agencies which spend more than $100 million per year on research and development to create plans to make public the articles and research data funded by those agencies. This means that if you are funded by NSF,NIH,DOE, or other large federal agencies, there is requirement to ensure there is open access to publications and research data are available and openly accessible. There are individual guides dedicated to the plans of each agency linked under Agency Resources.Articles must be deposited in an approved repository within 12 months of publication.
Why Public (Open) Access
An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet. The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, teachers, students, and other curious minds. Removing access barriers to this literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.
~ Budapest Open Access Initiative Declaration 1
| Agency | Start Date | Data Repository | Journal Repository | Article Embargo* Time Allowed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Institute of Health (NIH) |
In effect | Public repositories as directed by each institute (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/NIHbmic/nih_data_sharing_repositories.html) | PubMed Central (PMC) | 12 months |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) |
1/1/2016 | Publicly accessible repositories | Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (PAGES) | 12 months |
| US Department of Agriculture (USDA) |
Publications: 01/16 Data: TBD |
CRIS System and REEport (working) | PubAg: National Agricultural Library (NAL) | 12 months |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
10/1/2015 |
NASA Data Catalog NASA Data Portal |
PubSpace via PubMed Central (PMC) | 12 months |
| Department of Energy (DOE) | 10/15/2015 | Open Energy Information Platform (OpenIE) |
Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (PAGES) | 12 months |
| Department of Defense (DOD) | 10/2015 |
Centralized data |
PubDefense located at Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) |
12 months |
| Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) | 10/1/2015 | AHRQ Data Center | PubMed Central (PMC) | 12 months |
| Centers for Disease Control (CDC) | 10/1/2015 | Scientific Data Archives and Public repositories | PubMed Central (PMC) | 12 months |
| Department of Transportation (DOT) | Not listed | Conformant Repositories: Dryad, Harvard Dataverse, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Odum Institute Data Archive, and Zenodo | National Transportation Library | 18 months |
| Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | 10/1/2015 | Publicly accessible repositories | PubMed Central (PMC) | 12 months |
| National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) | 9/10/2009 | Publicly accessible repositories | OpenSky | Not listed |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | 10/1/2015 | Enterprise Data Inventory (EDI) in conjunction with a Common Access Platform (CAP) | PubMed Central (PMC) | 12 months |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | 10/1/2015 | National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) |
NOAA Institutional Repository |
12 months |
| Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) | 10/1/2014 | Public repositories | PubMed Central (PMC) | 12 months |
| US Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) | 2/1/2015 | Public repositories | PubMed Central (PMC) | 12 months |
* The time before an article will be freely available to the public is typically called the embargo time.
