Building a Federated System for Publicly Funded Research

Three higher education associations have formed a joint steering group aiming to build a network of repositories to provide public access to federally funded research articles and data. The proposed SHare network is a response to the White House Directivee issued in February, 2013 that requires all federal agencies providing funding of 100 + million to make publicly available the articles resulting from such funding. The SHare group is comprised of members from the Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and Association of Research Libraries. An alternative public access plan, Chorus, has been proposed by the American Association of Publishers. The issue of whether publisher groups or higher education groups should build and manage repositories of research articles resulting from federal funds is under debate.

August 27 was Deadline for Public Access Expansion Plans by U.S. Agencies doing R & D

Federal agencies with 100 + million in R & D funding were to have submitted public access plans to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) by August 27, 2013 per a White House Directive issued in February, 2013. The public access expansion directs other federal agencies who issue grant funding to require that recipients post the results of their research in public access systems similar to PubMed Cental, the NIH funded research article repository. This news announcement by the Association of American of Publishers contains their proposal for developing a public access database called Chorus. There are pros and cons to giving publishers control of public access databases, so look for future posts pointing to news announcements from other agencies proposing alternative public access repositories.

NIH Public Access Compliance

NIH Public Access Policy Compliance

Presentation offered by the Dykes Library with Cancer Center & Research Institute staff

Tuesday, August 13

10-11 am

School of Nursing B011

Learn how to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy, and use the tools needed to manage the compliance process.  Tools covered include PubMed, PubMed Central, My NCBI, and eRA Commons. Target audience is principal investigators, research administrators, faculty and staff involved in NIH grant administration. To register, visit

http://eventactions.com/ea.aspx?ea=Rsvp&invite=g1076rrcwh83wzu6ehb4jkr298xrx1vn7xn6ww0eeuv0u5wxgbzc

Journal Publishers Propose to Run a Clearinghouse for Open Research

If journal publishers, with the backing of the Association of American Publishers, get congressional approval to implement a  public access clearinghouse, one  blogger states "this would be the equivalent of the NRA running background checks on firearms purchases." Read the full post by Michael Eisen.