The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science enhances the stewardship of high-value data resources by designating them as Public Reusable Research (PuRe) Data Resources. These resources are data repositories, knowledge bases, analysis platforms, and other activities that make data publicly available to advance scientific or technical knowledge. PuRe Data Resources are authoritative sources of data or capabilities in their subject area that make data easier to find, access, and reuse across the broader scientific community. They are held to high standards for data management, resource operations, and scientific impact, which in turn enable better communication, better stewardship, and better science. As part of the Year of Open Science, the DOE Office of Science is highlighting our PuRe Data Resources starting with our newest designated resource, the Active Thermochemical Tables (ATcT).

More information: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDOEOS/bulletins/34fda17

USDA continues its longstanding commitment to public access to federally funded research with a new webpage that answers questions about USDA's current policies. The page helps food and agricultural researchers submit their USDA-funded research outputs to the National Agricultural Library's PubAg and Ag Data Commons. Researchers can also learn about USDA data management plan requirements and how to obtain persistent identifiers for themselves and their research outputs. This page — and platforms like PubAg and Ag Data Commons — are part of USDA's ongoing efforts to improve public access USDA research and deliver on the Department's commitment to equity. PubAg provides free public access to over 325,000 full-text articles and 4 million citations related to food and agriculture. Ag Data Commons provides access to nearly 7,000 datasets related to food and agriculture.

More information: https://www.nal.usda.gov/services/public-access

PubSpace is NASA's designated public access repository. It is a collection of NASA-funded scholarly publications within the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STI) Repository, aiming to increase access to federally funded research in accordance with NASA Public Access Policy. The collection enables free public access to NASA's peer-reviewed scholarly publications, including accepted manuscripts and publisher's version of record. NASA has entered into a partnership agreement with the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) publishing group. NASA researchers who publish in a CHORUS member's journal can now more easily satisfy the Agency's requirements for public access. The NASA STI Program has leveraged CHORUS resources to increase access to NASA-funded research by integrating metadata for NASA-funded publications available from CHORUS into the new PubSpace Collection within the NASA STI Repository. NASA's PubSpace portal to the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) PubMed Central (PMC) repository of journal articles from NASA-funded research, is still accessible. This content will be discoverable in the NASA STI PubSpace Collection.

More information: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/collections/pubspace

The U.S. Geological Survey is formulating its Year of Open Science Plan and the first step is to generate excitement about Open Science across the USGS. Deliberate and effective communications will actively promote and demonstrate the value of a more open, equitable, and secure scientific enterprise and engage scientists from across the USGS. To begin, the USGS has set up a public website to inform and garner interest in staff and partners about Year of Open Science activities. A major focus in the Year of Open Science is the Community for Data Integration workshop themed "Open Data for Open Science," happening from May 2-5, 2023. Participation and contribution in-person or virtually is open to all interested. A draft agenda is available here.

More information: https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/year-of-open-science

The NIH Office of Data Science Strategy recently announced Administrative Supplements to Enhance Software Tools for Open Science (NOT-OD-23-073) and Administrative Supplements to Support Collaborations to Improve the AI/ML-readiness of NIH-Supported Data (NOT-OD-23-082). NOT-OD-23-073 encourages and enables researchers to engage in new types of collaborations focused on improving the quality and sustainability of research software from a software engineering perspective. Supplements will support efforts that address robustness, sustainability, reusability, portability, and scalability of existing biomedical research software tools and workflows of recognized scientific value. NOT-OD-23-082 seeks to ensure data generated through NIH-funded research is Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learing (AI/ML)-ready and shared through repositories, knowledgebases, or other data sharing resources. These opportunities work to establish a modernized and integrated biomedical data ecosystem that adopts the latest data science technologies, including AI and ML, and best practice guidelines arising from community consensus, such as the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles, and open-source development.

More information: https://datascience.nih.gov/

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the launch of the second phase of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Preprint Pilot with the addition of more than 700 new preprint records to PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed. This second phase expands the scope of the Pilot to include preprints resulting from all NIH-funded research. Eligible preprints are those acknowledging direct support of an NIH award or authored by NIH staff and posted to bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, or Research Square, on or after January 1, 2023. NLM will automatically include the full text of the preprint (as license terms allow) and associated citation information available in PMC and PubMed, respectively. New preprint records will be added on a weekly basis. Phase 2 of the pilot is expected to run through 2023. A project of NLM, the NIH Preprint Pilot was launched in 2020 to explore new approaches to increase the discoverability of NIH-supported research results, with the first phase focusing on NIH-supported research on COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

More information: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/nihpreprints/

On January 25, 2023, NIH's new Policy for Data Management and Sharing (DMS Policy) will go into effect for most competing funding applications and intramural research protocols, requiring researchers to submit a DMS Plan with their application for funding outlining how they will share and manage data, as well as complying with the approved plan. This Policy conforms to the 2022 OSTP public access guidance and is part of NIH's broader efforts to accelerate biomedical research by making the outputs of NIH-funded research available for validation of research results and reuse in future research. Additional information about the Policy is available at the agency URL below, including a template, examples, and guidance for writing a DMS Plan, information on repositories for sharing and accessing NIH-funded data, budgeting for data management and sharing, and more.

More information: https://sharing.nih.gov/

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will join other federal agencies in celebrating the Year of Open Science in 2023 as we mark the ten-year anniversary of a White House Office of Science and Technology Policy memo requiring increased access to results of federally funded research. During the past 10 years, NIST has developed portals through which the public can access our research data as well as open-source research code. These research products are provided with digital object identifiers (DOIs) and sample citations to make them readily discoverable and citable. NIST's peer-reviewed publications are available through PubMed Central, and NIST Technical Series publications are available through the Government Publishing Office. NIST provides resources for students and educators through a webpage devoted to education on standards and the science of making measurements. NIST is also leading the effort to create a Research Data Framework for managing research data through its lifecycle. We expect to cap this year's celebration with the release of a new web portal to expand access to all NIST research products made available as FAIR digital objects, connecting them using natural language processing and persistent identifiers such as DOIs. Activities will be announced on a Year of Open Science page on NIST's website.

Agency URL: https://www.nist.gov/open/year-open-science

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is looking forward to collaborating with agency partners to promote and contribute to the 2023 Year of Open Science. As a global leader in Earth system science, the USGS understands the enormous value of making research products and processes available to all who are interested and can put it to good use. Currently, the USGS supports open science with robust data and software release policies and tools, open communities of practice, and ongoing partnerships with underrepresented groups. The USGS will be engaging its scientists in activities to further improve accessibility, reproducibility, and transparency of our scientific work, through trainings, workshops, and cross-USGS communications.

Agency URL: https://www.usgs.gov/

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has a long tradition of funding open scholarship. Our National Digital Newspaper Program has supported 20 million digitized newspaper pages made freely available online at Chronicling America via a partnership with the Library of Congress. Our Fellowships Open Book Program turns books written by NEH-funded researchers into open access ebooks. The NEH-NSF Documenting Endangered Languages program makes grants and fellowships to linguists recording and transcribing endangered and moribund languages for research, preservation, and revitalization. Humanities Collections and Reference Resources makes grants to libraries, archives, and museums to steward important collections of cultural heritage materials. Digital Humanities Advancement Grants fund research to develop cyberinfrastructure for the humanities, including open source software and tools. Scholarly Editions & Translations funds collaborative teams editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts, including the papers of many U.S. presidents, that are vital to scholarship but are currently inaccessible. A new program, the Dangers and Opportunities of Technology, funds research investigating the ethical and social impacts of technology, science, and medicine.

Agency URL: https://www.neh.gov/

The Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (DOE OSTI) offers services and support for assigning and using persistent identifiers (PIDs) for research components such as data, software, text documents, awards, people, and organizations. PIDs promote open science by enabling greater discovery and reuse of research outputs through unique identification and providing appropriate credit through citation and identifying contributors. By increasing interoperability through resolvable links and robust metadata, and facilitating impact and evaluation through linked research components, PIDs deliver value to the broader research community. With the recent launch of PIDs@OSTI.GOV, federal agencies and researchers can find general information about PIDs, details about the PID services OSTI provides, and community resources.

More information: https://www.osti.gov/pids/

NSF funded a cohort of 10, three-year, multi-institutional projects to start in 2023 to build and enhance national coordination among researchers and other stakeholders to advance FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) data principles and open-science practices. These are the inaugural awards in an open-science program NSF calls FAIROS RCN (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable, Open Science Research Coordination Networks) and represent a pooled investment of over $12.5 million in open science from all of NSF's seven directorates. These 10 projects are composed of 28 distinct NSF awards representing many organizations and institutions in the United States seeking to advance open-science efforts. The NSF Solicitation 22-553 for FAIROS RCN supports groups of investigators or "research coordination networks" to communicate, innovate, coordinate, and standardize research practices, training, and educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, geographic, and international boundaries to achieve the goals of FAIR and other open-science guiding principles. Full details on all 28 awards are available at the agency URL listed below.

More information: NSF FAIROS AWARDS

The ultimate goal of CDC's Data Modernization Initiative (DMI) is to get better, faster, actionable insights for decision-making at all levels of public health. Our vision is to create one public health community that can engage robustly with healthcare, communicate meaningfully with the public, improve health equity, and have the means to protect and promote health. Five key priorities of DMI include (1) Build the right foundation, (2) Accelerate data into action, (3) Develop state-of-the-art-workforce, (4) Support and extend external partnerships, and (5) Manage change and governance.

More information: https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/data-modernization/index.html

NASA has declared 2023 as the Year of Open Science to celebrate the benefits and successes of open science and to inspire more scientists to adopt open science practices. NASA's Year of Open Science is part of the five-year Transform to Open Science (TOPS) mission and the Open Source Science Initiative (OSSI). TOPS is an ambitious plan to accelerate open science practices and major scientific discoveries by increasing understanding and adoption of open science practices and broadening participation by historically excluded communities. In 2023, TOPS will release an introductory open science curriculum, engage with historically underrepresented groups, and develop incentives for open science practices. The success of the Year of Open Science will be driven by collaborations with individuals, teams, and organizations who are ready to transform the culture of scientific research into one that celebrates openness and inclusion.

More information: https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/transform-to-open-science