Washington D.C. - The National Science Foundation (NSF) unveiled a framework to increase public access to scientific publications and digital scientific data funded by NSF grants. The plan, entitled nsToday’s Data, Tomorrow’s Discoveries, will require that NSF-funded research presented in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and papers in juried conference proceedings or transactions be deposited in a database within one year of publication for the public to download, read, and analyze.
As outlined in section 3.1 of the plan, NSF will require that either the version of record or the final accepted manuscript in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and papers in juried conference proceedings or transactions must:
· Be deposited in a public access compliant repository designated by NSF;
· Be available for download, reading and analysis free of charge no later than 12 months after initial publication;
· Possess a minimum set of machine-readable metadata elements in a metadata record to be made available free of charge upon initial publication;
· Be managed to ensure long-term preservation; and
· Be reported in annual and final reports during the period of the award with a persistent identifier that provides links to the full text of the publication as well as other metadata elements.
For more information: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/public_access/index.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51
· Be deposited in a public access compliant repository designated by NSF;
· Be available for download, reading and analysis free of charge no later than 12 months after initial publication;
· Possess a minimum set of machine-readable metadata elements in a metadata record to be made available free of charge upon initial publication;
· Be managed to ensure long-term preservation; and
· Be reported in annual and final reports during the period of the award with a persistent identifier that provides links to the full text of the publication as well as other metadata elements.
For more information: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/public_access/index.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51
