Library Guides: Open Access: Funder Policies

U.S. Federal Funder Policies

“Public access” is a term often used by federal funding agencies mandating that research results, including data, from projects they have funded be made publicly available within a certain time frame according to the terms of the agency's policy.

Article and Data Sharing Requirements by Federal Agency
This resource from SPARC catalogs Article and Data Sharing Policies from U.S. federal funders. It includes the requirements of AHRQ, ASPR, CDC, Dept. of Defense, Dept. of Education, Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Transportation, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, NSF, Smithsonian, USAID, USDA, USGS, and Veterans Affairs.
OSTP Mandate: Public Access Policies for Federally Funded Research
This guide from the Penn State University Libraries provides a list of federal agencies that responded to a 2013 mandate from the Office of Science and Technology Policy by implementing public access policies. It includes links to each policy.
Research Data Management Services at Penn State
This guide provide an overview of the research data management resources available at Penn State.
Complying with the NSF Public Access Policy
This page from the Office of Scholarly Communications and Copyright explains how to comply with the NSF's public access policy.
Complying with the NIH Public Access Policy
This page from the Office of Scholarly Communications and Copyright explains how to comply with the NIH's public access policy.
Complying with the Department of Energy Public Access Policy
This page from the Office of Scholarly Communications and Copyright explains how to comply with the DOE's public access policy.

NIH Public Access Policy

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy requires that all peer-reviewed publications arising from NIH-funded research must be submitted to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. The Policy requires that these papers are accessible to the public in PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication.

A few thousand journals have agreements to deposit the final published versions of some or all of their articles directly in PMC. Use the PubMed Central Submission Process page to determine the requirements for your paper.

PubMed Central Submission Process
This page provides an overview of the PubMed Central submission process.

Other Funder Policies

Sherpa Juliet: Research Funders' Open Access Policies
Sherpa Juliet is a searchable database and single focal point of up-to-date information concerning funders' policies and their requirements on open access, publication and data archiving. It has an international scope and includes information on major U.S. funders such as the Gates Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Simons Foundation.