What is it?
NASA now requires that those receiving research grant funding from the NAS take steps to make their publications and research data publicly accessible. Here's link to the policy:
When?
Publications: Effective October 2015.
Data: Effective October 2015.
How?
Publication manuscripts will be submitted to PubSpace, a new NASA-branded interface to the PubMed Central repository; the Data Management Plan (DMP) should include a repository where the data will be deposited.
Why?
This plan was developed in response to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) February 22, 2013 memorandum, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research."
DATA
- Include a Data Management Plan (DMP) in the grant proposal, which names an open access repository where the data will be deposited by the researcher.
PUBLICATIONS (Journal articles, conference proceedings articles)
- Submit the Author Manuscript version of any research publications which result from NASA funding to PubSpace, a new NASA-branded interface to the PubMed Central repository. This should be done as soon as the article is accepted for publication. (The author manuscript version is the author's own copy of the peer reviewed manuscript, unformatted by the publisher).
If you have any questions about complying with a federal publication policy, please contact Fred Rascoe. If you have any questions about complying with a federal research data policy, please contact Susan Parham.
If you have any questions about your grant proposal, your award, your funding agency, or other logistical questions, please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs.
