OSF | Public Access Submission System (PASS)

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-02-19

Summary:

"The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University, the Center for Open Science, MIT Libraries and the Harvard University Office for Scholarly Communication are building the Public Access Submission System (PASS), an open platform that would support researchers’ workflows related to compliance with funding agencies’ public access policies. The main ideas for this project arose based on discussions between Harvard, MIT and COS over the last two years....

While many federal agencies require research results to be made publicly accessible, the processes and requirements to do so vary greatly from one agency to another. The heterogeneous processes and requirements have become burdensome for researchers and their institutions, resulting in lower rates of compliances or compliance efficacies. Federal agencies, however, are not in a position to develop and commit to a solution, which would harmonize these workflows.

On the university side, many researchers are subject to more than one OA policy, for example, a university policy and a funder policy. Similarly, in the case of researches with multiple funding sources, researchers are subjects to public access policies from different funders. Universities would face an implementation nightmare, if the only paths to compliance were the different submission interfaces at different funders and institutions,. A unified submission interface would lighten the load on universities, and improve compliance, even if the unified submission interface were not exclusive...."

Link:

https://osf.io/8qfzj/

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Tags:

oa.tools oa.code4oa oa.floss oa.deposits oa.usa oa.compliance oa.policies oa.policies.universities oa.pass oa.policies.funders oa.universities oa.funders oa.repositories oa.hei

Date tagged:

02/19/2018, 14:32

Date published:

02/19/2018, 09:32