research integrity are in place in order to strengthen public trust in federally funded science.
To achieve these goals, the following steps should be taken by federal agencies, as appropriate and consistent with their missions. By December 31st, 2024, federal agencies should submit to OSTP and OMB a second update to their public access plans specifying approaches taken to implement the provisions in this Section 4. Agencies should complete and publish full policy development for plans implementing these provisions by December 31st, 2026, with an effective date no later than one year after the publication of the agency plan. Federal agencies should, consistent with applicable law:
| a) | Collect and make publicly available appropriate metadata[1] associated with scholarly publications and data resulting from federally funded research, to the extent possible at the time of deposit in a public access repository. Such metadata should include at minimum: |
| i) | all author and co-author names, affiliations, and sources of funding, referencing digital persistent identifiers,[2] as appropriate; | |
| ii) | the date of publication; and, | |
| iii) | a unique digital persistent identifier for the research output; |
| b) | Instruct federally funded researchers to obtain a digital persistent identifier that meets the common/core standards of a digital persistent identifier service defined in the NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance,[3] include it in published research outputs when available, and provide federal agencies with the metadata associated with all published research outputs they produce, consistent with the law, privacy, and security considerations. |
| c) | Assign unique digital persistent identifiers[4] to all scientific research and development awards[5] and intramural research protocols that have appropriate metadata linking the funding agency and their awardees through their digital persistent identifiers. |
5. Public Access Plan Coordination Among Federal Agencies
Coordination among federal science agencies[6] is critical for the success of delivering America’s research to the public. The National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Open Science was chartered to facilitate such coordination between federal science agencies in conjunction with OSTP. Concurrent with and following the development of agency plans described Section 3 and Section 4 of this memorandum, the Subcommittee on Open Science will:
- ↑ For the purposes of this memorandum, metadata include information conveyed with the publications and data upon deposit in a public access repository to ensure proper attribution and versioning.
- ↑ See the NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance for definition: A digital identifier that is globally unique, persistent, machine resolvable and processable, and has an associated metadata schema.
- ↑ See Point 5 in the Digital Persistent Identifiers section of the NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance
- ↑ As a complement to implementation of the Federal Funding and Accountability Transparency Act
- ↑ Consistent with NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance, a research and development award refers to support provided to an individual or entity by a federal research agency to carry out research and development activities, which may include support in the form of a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or other such transaction.
- ↑ Federal science agencies here are defined as any federal agency with an annual extramural research expenditure of over $100,000,000 per 42 USC § 6623(f).
