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Science Agencies Update Public Access Plans

JUL 10, 2023
Andrea Peterson
Senior Data Analyst
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An illustration used to promote the Biden administration’s “year of open science.”

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Over the last month, the Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and National Institute of Standards and Technology have released plans for complying with a 2022 White House policy that requires scientific papers resulting from federally funded research to be freely available upon publication. The policy sunsets the current one-year embargo period by 2025.

The plans also lay out new guidelines on public access to research data and describe procedures for disseminating research products through agency public access repositories.

All three agencies plan to release additional guidance on the use of unique persistent identifiers for authors, organizations, and research results, which they expect to implement by 2027. NIST is soliciting feedback on its plan through Aug. 14.

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