NIH Public Access Policy Grant Compliance (PubMed Central)

• Peer-reviewed articles accepted on or after October 1, 2015 should be made available in an FDA-designated scientific article repository within 12 months after publication, and article metadata should be made available immediately in an FDA-designated repository.
• Researchers may submit final, peer-reviewed versions of their articles into PubMed Central (PMC) via the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).
• FDA requires that data management plans (DMPs) be developed and followed by both intramural and extramural researchers.
• FDA expects researchers to make datasets publicly accessible in discipline specific data repositories, wherever available, upon publication of their findings in a peer-reviewed article.
• The developed agency policies will expressly allow extramural researchers to include planned data management costs in their proposals.
• Failure to comply with the publication access and data management requirements—including the periodic reporting requirements―may serve as grounds to terminate the contract or cancel the grant.

Source: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ScienceResearch/AboutScienceResearchatFDA/UCM435418.pdf

• For data, NASA plans to develop an inventory/catalog of data resulting from NASA funding.  NASA is also exploring the development of a research data commons for storing and sharing data, but nothing specific at this point.
• For publications, NASA plans to provide a NASA-branded portal to the PubMed Central full-text article repository (developed by the NIH) to be used to support public access to NASA-funded research publications.

Source: http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2014/12/05/NASA_Plan_for_increasing_access_to_results_of_federally_funded_research.pdf

• All investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, that the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.

• equires investigators submitting a research application requesting $500,000 or more of direct costs in any single year to NIH on or after October 1, 2003 are expected to include a plan for sharing final research data for research purposes, or state why data sharing is not possible.
  Data sharing should occur in a timely fashion. NIH expects the timely release and sharing of data to be no later than the acceptance for publication of the main findings from the final dataset. 
  Data Sharing Plan (to follow immediately after the Research Plan Section): The precise content of the data-sharing plan will vary, depending on the data being collected and how the investigator is planning to share the data. Applicants who are planning to share data may wish to describe briefly the expected schedule for data sharing, the format of the final dataset, the documentation to be provided, whether or not any analytic tools also will be provided, whether or not a data-sharing agreement will be required and, if so, a brief description of such an agreement (including the criteria for deciding who can receive the data and whether or not any conditions will be placed on their use), and the mode of data sharing (e.g., under their own auspices by mailing a disk or posting data on their institutional or personal website, through a data archive or enclave). Investigators choosing to share under their own auspices may wish to enter into a data-sharing agreement.​

• For publications, NIST plans to provide a NIST-branded portal to the PubMed Central full-text article repository (developed by the NIH) to be used to support public access to NIST-funded research publications.
• As of October 2014, data management plans (DMPs) are required for all NIST-funded research.
• Data should be deposited in a repository as described in the data management plan.
• Under the guidance provided in the Project Open Data component of OMB memorandum M-13-13, metadata for existing data should conform to specific standards and be submitted to the NIST Enterprise Data Inventory (EDI).

Source: http://www.nist.gov/open/upload/NIST-Plan-for-Public-Access.pdf 

• Requires that final peer reviewed manuscripts be submitted to NOAA repository for sharing within 12 months.
• The Data Management Plan (DMP) should include a repository where the data will be deposited, which may include existing NOAA data centers.
• Data must be made available with article publication for supporting data, or within one year of collection for other data.

Source: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/noaa_documents/NOAA_Research_Council/NOAA_PARR_Plan_v5.04.pdf  

• Requires 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 (initially this will be DOE PAGES repository)
• NSF’s Data Management Plan (DMP) requirement remains unchanged (effective Jan 2011), however the Public Access plan reinforces that "Data that underlie the findings reported in a journal article or conference paper should be deposited in accordance with the policies of the publication and according to the procedures laid out in the DMP included in the proposal that led to the award on which the research is based. In the future, NSF will explore whether all data underlying published findings can be made available at the time of publication."

Source: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15052/nsf15052.pdf

• Effective January 1, 2016, USDA/NIFA grantees will be required to deposit final, peer-reviewed manuscripts in the USDA public access archive system, PubAg. The Implementation Plan states, “The USDA will ensure easy search and download of scholarly publications resulting from USDA funds without charge no later than 12 months following publication.
• Effective January 1, 2016, USDA/NIFA research program requests for applications will begin to require data management plans as part of new proposals. The authors of the Implementation Plan noted that since “public access to federally supported research data is a new concept for many researchers," a focus on outreach, education, and training is essential.
• Implementation is already underway and will be completed in 2017.

Source: http://www.usda.gov/documents/USDA-Public-Access-Implementation-Plan.pdf

• Publication manuscripts may be submitted to the USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse.
• Datasets must be submitted to the Data Development Library (DDL).

Source: https://blog.usaid.gov/2014/10/announcing-usaids-open-data-policy/

• Each research project work plan must include a Data Management Plan (DMP) describing standards and intended actions for acquiring, processing, analyzing, preserving, publishing/sharing, describing, managing quality, backing up, and securing the data holdings.
• All research data displayed in publications resulting from the proposed research must be made open, machine-readable, and digitally accessible to the public at the time of publication. Guidance is available on the USGS Data Management website.
• Data published or released to the public must receive approval before release unless that data is preliminary or provisional. Guidance is available on the USGS Data Management website.
• Approved data must be assigned a persistent identifier, specifically a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) from the USGS registration agent, and be accompanied by a recommended citation.
• Associated memoranda have been issued related to metadata, data approval and release, andpreservation requirements.
• Full guidance and procedures supporting the interim policy are available at the USGS Data Management website.

Source: http://www.usgs.gov/usgs-manual/im/IM-OSQI-2015-01.html

• Investigators are responsible for depositing manuscripts in PubMed Central, operated by the National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NLM), upon the manuscripts' acceptance for publication. Articles with a publication acceptance date of February 1, 2015, or later are to be included. Deposited manuscripts are made available to the public in PubMed Central no later than 12 months after their publication in a journal.
• All proposals for VA-funded research must include a data management plan describing the mechanisms for providing public access to the digital data resulting from the research. The plan must specifically include how the final research datasets underlying all publications reporting results of VA-funded research will be made available for discovery, retrieval, and analysis, including which materials will be available in machine readable formats. (Effective date: December 31, 2015)

Source: http://www.va.gov/ORO/Docs/Guidance/VA_RSCH_DATA_ACCESS_PLAN_07_23_2015.pdf