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Federal Agency Policies for Public Access

Access for federally funded research

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a policy memorandum, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research,” on February 22, 2013 directing federal agencies with more than $100 million/year in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make publications resulting from that funding publicly available. The memo also called for funded researchers to better account for and manage the digital data coming from their funded research. As of 2016, nineteen agencies have begun implementing public access plans.

Publication and data access policies of multiple Federal funding agencies

The list below includes the top federal funding agencies for research at the University of Arizona. The list below includes multiple federal funding agencies that may be used by faculty at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Follow the links for brief descriptions of the policies for these agencies and where to get further help.

National Institutes of Health / National Institute for Mental Health

  • Submit articles upon acceptance. See our NIH publication access guide.
  • Submit data sets to a repository at the time of publication. 
  • View the full NIH public access plan.

Department of Defense

  • Submit articles upon acceptance. See DOD publication access guide
  • Submit data sets to a repository at the time of publication. See our DOD data access guide
  • View the full DOD public access plan

Department of Education

  • Submit articles upon acceptance. See our Department of Education publication access guide
  • Submit datasets to a repository at the time of acceptance. See our Department of Education data access guide.
  • View the full Department of Education public access plan
  • View the Institue of Education Sciences public access to research policy

National Science Foundation

  • Submit articles upon publication. See our NSF publication access guide.
  • Submit data sets to repository at the time of publication. See our NSF data access guide.
  • View the full NSF public access plan

Other Agencies