OSTI, US Dept of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information | Speeding access to science information from DOE and Beyond

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-04-22

Summary:

"For science agencies, access to federally funded research is a key part of our mission.  And the very first requirement for federal agency public access plans directed by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was that the plans must encompass 'a strategy for leveraging existing archives, where appropriate, and fostering public-private partnerships with scientific journals relevant to the agency’s research [emphasis added].'  This 2013 OSTP memo is replete with calls for public-private partnerships ... From the first, and even before the clarion calls and requirements from Congress and OSTP for partnerships with stakeholders, the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) acting for DOE has made collaboration a byword.  DOE was an early adopter of the concept of a distributed approach to public access in the kind of public-private partnership that OSTP later encouraged in its memo on public access.  DOE worked with the publishing community through participation in CrossRef’s FundRef project.  FundRef provides a standard way to report funding sources for published scholarly research, thereby helping an agency identify and account for journal articles resulting from its research investments.  Publishers deposit funding information from articles and other content using a standard taxonomy of funder names.  DOE worked with CrossRef to provide an accurate taxonomy of agency funding sources.  OSTI is a member of the FundRef Advisory Group and has been involved since the first FundRef pilot project in 2012.  Most recently, we have added an OSTI employee to a working group for SHARE, the SHared Access Research Ecosystem, which describes itself as a 'higher education and research community initiative to ensure the preservation of, access to, and reuse of research outputs.'  We believe that collaboration is going very well ..."

Link:

http://www.osti.gov/home/ostiblog/how-accelerate-public-access

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.obama_directive oa.usa oa.funders oa.mandates oa.data oa.green oa.doe oa.compliance oa.share oa.repositories oa.policies

Date tagged:

04/22/2015, 07:33

Date published:

04/22/2015, 03:33