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OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 15, 2019 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 15, 2019 |
| Award Number: | 1939279 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Martin Halbert
OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | October 1, 2019 |
| End Date: | March 31, 2022 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $191,486.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $191,486.00 |
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1200 New York Ave, NW Washington DC US 20005-3920 |
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| NSF Program(s): | NSF Public Access Initiative |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
The Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) propose to broaden and deepen awareness and understanding of public access issues across the academic research community. The conference will capitalize on the experiences of "early adopter" institutions and leading stakeholder groups in the open science community; the organizers will develop and broadly disseminate a Guide to assist institutions conducting research in creating and implementing public access policies and practices.
The steps to achieving the objectives are through 1) developing a framework and strategic plan to guide the long-term engagement necessary to accelerate public access to research data; 2) convening a conference of the prior NSF-funded public access workshop participants to review the plan and prepare for discussions on shared solutions; 3) convening a second conference that brings together early adopters with less engaged institutions and stakeholders (e.g., funders, scientific and professional societies, publishers) to increase understanding of public access and develop content for a Guide to accelerating public access to research data at academic institutions; 4) creating working groups of institutions and stakeholders to explore unresolved challenges; 5) holding a follow-up event to incorporate the working group recommendations into a final Guide; and 6) disseminating the Guide to the higher education research community through a strategic education campaign to reach key leadership communities.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
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Advancing public access to research data is important to improving transparency and reproducibility of scientific results, increasing scientific rigor and public trust in science, and -- most importantly -- accelerating the pace of discovery and innovation through the open sharing of research results. The Accelerating Public Access to Research Data (APARD) project, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF #1939279) and undertaken by the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU). addressed one critical element of ensuring that federally funded research results are publicly accessible and transparent: the vital need for academic institutions to develop and implement data sharing policies, infrastructure and support systems for researchers to responsibly share data that support their research findings.
The work conducted as a part of this grant builds on previous joint AAU and APLU research data access effects, including the work of the joint AAU Public Access Working Group (2016-2017); an 2018 AAU-APLU data access workshop sponsored by NSF (NSF #1837847); and a joint conference with the Association of Research Libraries and the California Digital Library. It is also consistent with U.S. government and global open science efforts as well as international declarations, such as the Sorbonne declaration on research data rights.
The key outcome of the award was the Guide to Accelerate Public Access to Research Data, which provides institutions with a road map to initiate and bolster current efforts academic organizations are making to create a robust system for ensuring effective public access to high-quality research data. The Guide assists institutions and their senior administrators in crafting consistent and uniform approaches to all aspects of research data management and sharing (i.e., research data stewardship) on their campuses, which will promote compatibility and interoperability among institutions. Beginning with the argument for embracing rigorous sharing of research data, the Guide outlines a series of recommendations and initial action steps for building and implementing a system for supporting public access to research data. Resources and examples from research universities that have begun to build their systems are provided, along with questions to assess progress for each of the recommendations.
Changing culture and practice to embrace research transparency and quality data sharing is an ecosystem problem. Thus, a second impactful outcome is the new external and internal campus networks, working groups and related efforts that were developed through multiple convenings of a broad range of institutions, funders and policy makers who participated in the workshops and webinars produced by the project. For example, North Carolina schools developed a spin-off virtual regional conference that not only served their state?s institutions, but was attended by colleges and universities throughout the US. Additionally, as a direct result of the APARD convenings and in response to the Guide, many AAU and APLU campuses have convened cross-campus working groups to develop and advance new data access policies and practices on their respective campuses. One final outcome of the project has been the foundational connections developed among institutions, higher education associations, scientific societies, funders, policy makers. and disciplinary societies in bringing them all together to support accelerating access to research data.
Last Modified: 07/29/2022
Modified by: Tobin Smith
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