In 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) mandated that agencies undertake new plans to ensure that by 2025 peer-reviewed publications and associated data arising from federally funded research be made immediately and freely available upon date of publication.
NSF is now responding to this new mandate and will be actively engaging with the research communities served by NSF to inform and learn from them about the policies and practices as they are deployed to comply with these new mandates.
The U.S. National Science Foundation's Public Access Initiative ensures the outputs of NSF-funded scientific research are made publicly available to the greatest extent, with the fewest constraints possible and consistent with law.
This page highlights the efforts of NSF's Public Access Initiative, which include:
Maintaining the
NSF Public Access Repository,
where NSF-supported publications and other research products are openly available to the public.
Funding projects that advance the understanding of, provide resources for, and/or encourage practices toward enhancing public access.
Coordinating agency activities regarding public access.
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST
NSF and AAAS co-hosted a webinar “How can public access advance equity and learning?" designed to solicit input and ideas on equity considerations associated with federal agencies’ public access plans. For the first time, attendees heard from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and multiple federal agencies--NASA, NIH, DOE and NSF--on their public access plans in one setting while they addressed the scientific community’s concerns. The agenda also included a panel moderated by AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh during which academics, leaders and researchers discussed how the plans could affect the communities they represent.
Watch the recording, and access the slide presentation, speaker bios and other resources here:
https://www.aaas.org/events/how-can-public-access-advance-equity-and-learning
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Agenda
Welcome and Introduction
The Honorable Sethuraman Panchanathan, Ph.D., Director, U.S. National Science Foundation (video message)
Overview of OSTP Public Access Guidance and Federal Agency Plans
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Maryam Zaringhalam, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Public Access and Research Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
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Steven Crawford, Ph.D., Senior Program Executive for Data and Computing, Science Mission Directorate, NASA
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Jessica Tucker, Ph.D., Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Science Policy, National Institutes of Health
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Brian Hitson, Director, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy
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Martin Halbert, Ph.D., Science Advisor for Public Access, U.S. National Science Foundation
Panel Discussion: Impact of Policies on Scientific Community
Moderator
: Sudip Parikh, Ph.D., AAAS CEO and Executive Publisher, Science Family of Journals
Panelists:
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Willie E. May, Ph.D., Vice President, Research and Economic Development, Morgan State University | President-elect, AAAS
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Philip Rosenthal, M.D., Editor-in-Chief,
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | Professor, Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Vanessa Sansone, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Sam Zhang, Ph.D. candidate in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder
Equity Aspirations
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Alan Tomkins, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Social and Economic Sciences Division, Directorate on Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences, U.S. National Science Foundation, stood in for Charles Barber, Ph.D., Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, U.S. National Science
Audience Q&A
As background, in August 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) called upon federal agencies to update their public access policies to make publications resulting from federally funded research publicly accessible without embargo on their free and public release. Agency public access plans must be complete and published by Dec. 31, 2024, and go into effect no later than one year after publication. Over the past several months, federal agencies have issued draft public access plans and are soliciting input on implementation.
NSF Public Access Plan 2.0: Ensuring Open, Immediate, and Equitable Access to National Science Foundation Funded Research
With a newly updated Public Access Plan, NSF's Public Access and Open Science Working Group has launched a Listen and Learn Series to help inform its implementation plan. Researchers and grant administrations are encouraged to
register
for upcoming webinars
and/or watch past sessions
:
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Friday, May 5
from 1 to 2 p.m. for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Technology, Innovation and Partnerships communities.
Watch the webinar now
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Friday, June 2
from 1 to 2 p.m. for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences and STEM Education communities.
Watch the webinar now
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Friday, June 16
from 1 to 2 p.m. for the Geosciences and Biological Sciences communities.
Watch the webinar now.
Thursday, June 29
from 1 to 2 p.m. for the Engineering and Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering communities.
Watch the webinar now.
Visit NSF’s
public access website
for more information. And stay tuned for an upcoming request for information in the coming weeks and an afternoon webinar on June 30, co-sponsored by NSF and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, focusing on equity and early-career researchers. Updated public access policies are a centerpiece of the White House-led Year of Open Science. Visit
https://open.science.gov
to learn more and to get involved!
Soon to be called data management and sharing plans, data management plans are an integral part of project proposals. Researchers are required to include
data management plans
in their proposals to NSF. Data management requirements and plans specific to directorates, offices, divisions, programs or other NSF units are found in program solicitations or in the links below.
