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Open Science and Open by Default in Canada

On October 9, 2014 the Government of Canada issued the Directive on Open Government. It is the "Open by Default" directive, stating

Departments must maximize the release of open data and open information by ensuring that all data and information resources specified [in Appendix B] are considered for release.

The directive covers all government data and information. In addition, the draft 2nd Open Government Action Plan lists some specific focus areas with deliverables, including C.1. Open Science.

Deliverables to be completed in 2014-2016:
C.1.1 Develop and publish a government-wide Open Science Implementation Plan which lays out strategies and milestones
C.1.2 Establish an online service to enable a one-stop search for publications and data resulting from federally-funded scientific activities.
C.1.3 Establish common Open Access requirements for federally funded scientific research.
C.1.4 Develop inventories of scientific data, and initiate the public release of data supporting scientific research publications.
C.1.5 Publish and maintain a consolidated online list of peer-reviewed articles by Government of Canada scientists dating back to 2012.

The draft is open for consultation until noon Eastern time, Monday October 20, 2014. You can contribute to the consultation by leaving a comment at the bottom of the draft document. (Note: this is the fourth and probably final phase of consultation on the 2nd Open Gov Action Plan.)

US gov department Public Access Plans

On February 22, 2013 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research” (PDF)

2. Agency Public Access Plan

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) hereby directs each Federal agency with over $100 million in annual conduct of research and development expenditures to develop a plan to support increased public access to the results of research funded by the Federal Government.

It is not clear to me how one is supposed to find these Public Access Plans.

So I'm making a list.  Which currently is a list of one.

• Department of Energy - Public Access Plan (PDF) July 24, 2014
  - web - presentation (PDF) - DOE OSTI web - Statement on Digital Data Management

Why a policy about open access is a PDF in response to a PDF is a separate issue.

If you know of any other departmental public access plans, please let me know.

UPDATE 2015-02-09: Agency for Heathcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/publicaccess/

UPDATE 2015-02-14:

NASA http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2014/12/05/NASA_Plan_for_increasing_access_to_results_of_federally_funded_research.pdf - a Research Data Policy, including requiring Data Management Plans - all articles to go (somewhat surprisingly) into PMC

USDA http://www.usda.gov/documents/USDA-Public-Access-Implementation-Plan.pdf - all articles to go into "USDA public access archive system" an "expanded and enhanced repository system" which (although the document doesn't make it particularly clear) I guess will be a next generation version of PubAg

UPDATE 2015-03-03:

Health and Human Services (HHS) packaged all of its sub-agency plans into one list on
http://www.hhs.gov/open/public-access/

Ones marked with an asterisk* are new.

• NIH’s Public Access Plan
• FDA’s Public Access Plan*
• CDC’s Public Access Plan*
• AHRQ’s Public Access Plan
• ASPR’s Public Access Plan*

SPARC (which is the source for this info) has a useful summary, including:

• plans focus on both articles and research data
• All five agencies will use the NIH Manuscript Submission System to deposit articles into the PubMed Central database, which will serve as the focal point for compliance.
• The CDC will take the additional step of dually hosting its funded articles in the agency’s local repository, called CDC Stacks.
• to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after publication

UPDATE 2015-03-17: There is a good summary list available from Columbia University Libraries

http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/open-access/public-access-mandates-for-federally-funded-research/

The Defense Department (DoD) has released their draft plan: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/pdf/DoD_PublicAccessPlan_Feb2015.pdf

via Heather Joseph at SPARC http://sparc.arl.org/blog/dod-releases-draft-public-access-plan (who is my source for most of the public access plans)

UPDATE 2015-03-18: National Science Foundation (NSF) http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/public_access/ with accompanying press release.

 

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