in February 2013 the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy issued
the increasing access to the results of
federally funded government research
memorandum this memorandum requires
agencies that receive more than 100
million dollars per year in government
research funding to make their data and
publications more accessible to the
public
promoting the full and open sharing of
data in a way that can generate exciting
discoveries and innovative applications
is one of NASA's core values sharing
research in this way creates a knowledge
resource that's accessible to people the
world over in response to the White
House memorandum NASA has created a new
policy that better enables the
preservation distribution and
reproduction of scientific research
NASA conducts n' supports research not
just in space and Aeronautics but also
in healio physics astrophysics Earth and
Planetary Sciences life and physical
sciences health and technology
development the agency has a
long-standing history of sharing its
data with research communities and
private industry as well as the general
public to strengthen NASA's commitment
to public access our new research policy
specifically addresses how NASA funded
investigators must manage their research
data and peer-reviewed publications that
arise from unclassified NASA funded
research technology and development
programs data management is an important
part of research planning NASA's new
policy now requires that all proposals
are project plans submitted for research
funding in
data management plan or DMP DMPs provide
a plan for making data research
accessible and describe whether and how
data gathered during the proposed
research will be shared and preserved in
NASA approved databases some data are
excluded from the DMP policy patents
publications that contain material
governed by personal privacy export
control proprietary restrictions or
national security law or regulations and
other classified information are all
exempt the data created from the NASA
funded research are now required to be
deposited according to the original
proposals DMP and the manuscripts of the
peer-reviewed scientific publications
are now required to be uploaded to NASA
hub space which is managed by NIH s
PubMed Central the repository can be
found here this new policy applies to
all nasa-funded researchers both
internal and external including NASA
employees contractors consultants
temporary employees and both full and
part-time special government employees
who receive grants and cooperative
agreements and hold contracts for
research this is committed to educating
nasa-funded researchers on how this
policy affects them and how it should be
implemented for more details about this
policy including implementation plans
and training for investigators
please visit nasa.gov slash open slash
research access
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