US DOE’s Public Access Plan: A vision reaching fruition

Ms. Deborah CutlerAlt. US INIS Liaison Officer

Office of Scientific and Technical Information U.S. Department of Energy

37th Consultative Meeting of the INIS Liaison Officers14-15 October 2014

Vienna, Austria

Speech Outline

• Why public access is important/Historical

perspective

• Public access policy milestones in the U.S.

• DOE’s response, Public Access Plan

• PAGES implementation/examples

• Conclusion

• DOE philosophy: obligation to taxpayers to ensure access to

what they have helped fund: R&D investment results

• OSTI role for almost 70 years has been to facilitate making

this happen

• OSTI current Mission Statement: “To advance science and

sustain technological creativity by making R&D findings

available and useful to DOE researchers and the public”

• DOE Office of Science Former Director Bill Brinkman

summarized concept well in 2013: "Collaboration,

transparency and open access to scientific findings

accelerate discovery and innovation”

Why Public Access is Important

• OSTI role: decades of public sharing of full text on

primarily report literature; citations on the rest

• Mid-90’s, extreme budget challenges shifted OSTI focus

to DOE-centric coverage, rather than country of

publication-centric coverage

• Recent year developments added videos, data as

‘types’ laboratories asked to provide – Science Cinema

demonstrated last ILO meeting

• Still, public missing free access to a critical portion of

DOE R&D results – peer-reviewed journal articles

Historical Perspective

Direction of Public Access Policy in the United

States

• 2008: National Institutes of Health (NIH) mandate,

PubMed model

• Since 2008: Numerous legislative bills drafted to extend

concept to other agencies

• Specifically impacting DOE: The White House Office of

Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Directive –

February 22, 2013

• Landmark policy on “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research” that calls on federal science agencies to develop and implement public access plans that provide for making peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and scientific data in digital formats resulting from agency research investments publicly available in a timely fashion.

• Agencies with over $100M in annual R&D have to comply• For publications:

• Provide for free public access within 12 months of publication (or tailor embargo period as appropriate)

• Encourage private-public collaboration• Ensure long-term preservation

• For data:• Maximize access while using a cost-benefit approach• Ensure that researchers develop data management plans• Encourage cooperation with private sector

Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Requirement, February 2013

• OSTI assigned lead for developing DOE’s response to OSTP in the publications portion; Office of Science, had the lead on the data sharing portion, with OSTI participation

• DOE’s Public Access Plan approved 4 Aug 2014 http://www.energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan

• DOE was first (and so far, only) Federal agency to have plan approved by OSTP

DOE’s Response Finalized, 4 Aug 2014

PAGESBeta is live at http://www.osti.gov/pages/

The DOE Public Access Model: Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science

(PAGES)

Features:• Centralized metadata• Decentralized full-text articles and manuscripts,

using DOE/institutional and publisher repositories

• Introduced in “beta” form:• Beta version consists of initial collection of

DOE accepted manuscripts and publisher content (~6,500 records).

• Anticipate 25,000-30,000 manuscripts/articles per year after embargo period.

Features (cont’d):• Long-term free access by the public to the “best

available version” of peer-reviewed scholarly publications sponsored by DOE.

The DOE Public Access Model:Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science

(PAGES)

DOE Ingest Stream(E-Link)

Collaboration with publishers via

CHORUS and CrossRef

Best Available Version

We are collaborating with publishers to take advantage of their public access offerings.

*CHORUS is the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States – a publisher consortium.

Features (cont’d):• A dark archive to ensure long-term preservation

and access.• “Live” access will link to distributed articles and

manuscripts at publisher sites and DOE institutional repositories.

• Dark archive serves as a “backup” if any link or access is broken or discontinued.

• 12-month administrative interval or embargo period, with established mechanisms for stakeholders to petition for changing the interval.

The DOE Public Access Model:Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science

(PAGES)

CHORUS/Publisher Participation Complements DOE’s Existing Infrastructure

Top Publishers of DOE Research2007-2013

22%

21%

18%

9%

7%

6%

5%

Elsevier

American Chemical Society

American Physical Society

American Institute of Physics

Institute of Physics

Wiley

Springer

Royal Society of Chemistry

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Nature Publishing Group

American Geophysical Union

National Academy of Sciences

Public Library of Science

American Meteorological Society

Optical Society

Elsevier

American ChemicalSociety

American Physical Society

American Institute of Physics

Institute ofPhysics

Wiley

Springer

PAGESBeta Released August 4, 2014

Two Pathways of PAGES search

Path 1 – From query to accepted manuscripts

1) Search query

2) Citation page

At a DOE lab repository

3) Full-text access to accepted manuscript

Two Pathways of PAGES search (cont.)

Path 2 – From query to article

1) Search query

2) Citation page

At publisher website

3) Full-text access to article

Impacts/Conclusion

• Implementing public access is by no means an easy effort and will take time for sites to integrate new policies

• Mandate for the DOE sites begins with submissions after 1 October 2014

• Expect that initiative will positively impact OSTI US submission totals to INIS and number should grow over time

• ILOs/Secretariat should be aware that many of the articles the US will provide may be published in other countries’ journals

• PAGES will evolve, based on stakeholder feedback