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    {"title" :"Federally Funded Research Results Are Becoming More Open and Accessible","summary" : "Summary: Significant strides in improving public access to scholarly publications and digital data help usher in an era of open science. This week marks the 8th annual Open Access Week, when individuals and organizations around the world celebrate the value of opening up online access to the results of scholarly research. It is an opportune","date" : "2016-10-28T01:00:53-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jerry-sheehan" : "Jerry Sheehan"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2016/10/2016-10-28-federally-funded-research-results-are-becoming-more-open-and-accessible.md","slug" : "federally-funded-research-results-are-becoming-more-open-and-accessible","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/10/28/federally-funded-research-results-are-becoming-more-open-and-accessible/","content" :"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSummary: Significant strides in improving public access to scholarly publications and digital data help usher in an era of open science.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis week marks the 8th annual Open Access Week, when individuals and organizations around the world celebrate the value of opening up online access to the results of scholarly research. It is an opportune time to highlight the considerable progress that Federal departments and agencies have made increasing public access to the results of Federally-supported scientific research and advancing the broader notion of open science. \u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2016/10/600-x-400-Vector-line-web-concept-for-science-karpenko_ilia-iStock-Thinkstock-604024986.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Vector line web concept for science.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis week, OSTP is announcing the public access plans of three more Federal departments and agencies—Department of Education (ED), Agency for International Development, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). These plans respond to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOSTP Memorandum\u003c/a\u003e on Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research and establishes objectives for departments and agencies to meet in improving access to peer-reviewed scholarly publications and digital data resulting from Federally-funded research. The completed plan from ED is now available \u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/funding/pdf/EDPlanPolicyDevelopmentGuidanceforPublicAccess.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eonline\u003c/a\u003e, and plans of the other two agencies should be published soon.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese three plans bring the number of U.S. Federal departments and agencies with OSTP-approved public \u003ca href=\"https://cendi.gov/projects/Public_Access_Plans_US_Fed_Agencies.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eaccess plans to 19\u003c/a\u003e. Together, agencies with approved public access plans account for more than 98 percent of U.S. Federal expenditures on R\u0026amp;D.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgencies are moving quickly to implement their plans. Sixteen agencies now require researchers to ensure free public access to peer-reviewed publications resulting from all newly-funded research, with a delay of not more than 12 months after the publication date. All agencies have designated repositories and systems for opening up access to a large number of publications resulting from Federally-funded research:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePubMed Central\u003c/a\u003e, the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) repository of life-sciences literature, now contains more than 4 million full-text articles and is used by more than 1.25 million people per day. NIH \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/mscollection/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003enow provides access\u003c/a\u003e to a collection of 430,000 author manuscripts published since 2008, optimized for text-mining and freely available by file transfer protocol.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe National Science Foundation’s Public Access Repository, \u003ca href=\"http://par.nsf.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNSF-PAR\u003c/a\u003e, launched earlier this year, now provides access to almost 11,000 full-text research articles; it leverages technology from the Department of Energy’s Public Access \u003ca href=\"http://www.osti.gov/pages/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGateway\u003c/a\u003e for Energy \u0026amp; Science, which now provides access to more than 24,000 full-text research articles.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Defense Technical Information Center launched a \u003ca href=\"http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/search/tr/journal.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ededicated public-access system\u003c/a\u003e earlier this year that contains more than 2,000 articles resulting from research funded by the Department of Defense. It has also simplified access to more than 30,000 full-text journal articles housed in its extensive technical reports collection.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Department of Agriculture has made 95,000 full-text journal articles available through its \u003ca href=\"https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/pubag/home.xhtml\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePubAg\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTreeSearch\u003c/a\u003e systems.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Environmental Protection Agency has signed an interagency agreement with the National Library of Medicine to use PubMed Central as the designated repository for peer-reviewed scholarly publications.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://cendi.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCENDI\u003c/a\u003e, a group of Federal agencies that manage scientific and technical information, created a central source of authoritative information about agency public access plans and implementation and intends to enhance its existing \u003ca href=\"http://www.science.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eScience.gov\u003c/a\u003e system to facilitate search across the various Federal agency public-access systems.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgencies are also making considerable progress to improve the management of and access to data resulting from Federally-funded research. Thirteen agencies now require that all new research projects have data management plans describing the data to be collected during the project and plans for its long-term preservation and access. Other agencies are beginning to implement such requirements, and all are developing tools to improve data management, discovery, and preservation.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Department of Transportation has released more than 800 transportation-related datasets, ranging from intelligent transportation systems to on-time performance statistics for airlines and connected them to research project descriptions and full-text reports in the \u003ca href=\"http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/researchhub/index.do\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eUSDOT Research Hub\u003c/a\u003e‎  to provide seamless public access.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Department of Veterans Affairs received 1,677 data management plans as part of new funding applications since its new requirements went into place in January 2016. The Department of Education received 63 data management plans for projects awarded in Fiscal Year 2015 and 2016.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe U.S. Geological Survey released the first version of its \u003ca href=\"https://data.usgs.gov/datarelease/pages/login\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eData Release Workbench\u003c/a\u003e, a web-based application to provide funded scientists with access to data management and discovery tools and assistance in navigating through the stages of a data release.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s dataset identifier project has issued more than 587 digital object identifiers for datasets archived at the National Centers for Environmental Information, enabling the unambiguous citation of data used to support research results.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched a new NASA-Funded \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/open/researchaccess\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eResearch Results portal\u003c/a\u003e in August to provide one-stop shopping for research articles and data resulting from NASA-funded research.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo help guide future efforts to improve access to the results of Federally-funded research, the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Science has just established a new Interagency Working Group on Open Science (IWGOS). The IWGOS will build upon progress to date and facilitate interagency coordination and cooperation on topics of common interest. It will also identify additional steps agencies can take to improve the preservation, discoverability, accessibility, and usability of the full range of outputs of, and data supporting, Federally-funded scientific research. In addition, the new interagency working group will identify opportunities for international communication and collaboration to advance open science.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpen science has become a priority for many other countries and has featured prominently in recent high-level statements and communiques from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.oecd.org/sti/daejeon-declaration-2015.htm\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development\u003c/a\u003e (OECD), \u003ca href=\"http://www.g20.org/English/Dynamic/201609/t20160906_3396.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eG20\u003c/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"http://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/kokusaiteki/g7_2016/20160517communique.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eG7\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt their meeting in Tsukuba, Japan last May, G7 Science and Technology Ministers agreed to establish an international working group on open science to identify good practices for improving access to scholarly publications and digital data that result from government-funded research and explore incentive structures that can reward scientists who practice open science. The first meeting of that G7 Open Science Working Group is scheduled to take place next month in Japan. Additionally, open science will be a core priority for the OECD’s Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy over the next two years.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, these efforts to open up the results of Federally-funded research promise to increase the return of Federal investments in scientific research, bolster the reliability of that research, accelerate scientific discovery, stimulate innovation, promote entrepreneurship, and enhance economic growth and job creation. These are certainly accomplishments worth celebrating during Open Access Week—and ones that will have lasting effects long beyond.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJerry Sheehan is Assistant Director for Scientific Data \u0026amp; Information at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.\u003c/em\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThis post was originally published on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/blog\"\u003eOSTP blog\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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