Public access mandates for federally funded research: implementation plans - Columbia UnivIn the Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research policy memorandum released in February 2013, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Director John Holdren directed federal agencies to develop plans to make the publications resulting from federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication, and required researchers to better account for and manage the digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research with the goal of making these data publicly accessible, as well.
The memorandum is directed to the heads of executive departments and agencies with over $100 million in annual extramural R&D budgets to develop a public access plan for the results of research–meaning scientific publications and digital scientific data–directly arising from their funds (2014-03-24 Update, lists agencies).Federal funding agencies started rolling out their implementation plans in 2014 (2014-11-13 Progress update).
Here is a summary table of the agencies that have made their implementation plans public, followed by links to the implementation plans along with brief summaries of the proposed solutions for providing public access to articles (A) and digital data sets (D):