European Commission's View on Increasing Access to Research Information

In this Communication to the European Parliament, the European Commission highlights the importance of increasing public access to research information:

"It is estimated that government investments of $3.8 billion in the Human Genome Project, a U.S. co-ordinated research endeavour including major European contributions, have had an economic impact worth $796 billion, created 310 000 jobs and launched the genome revolution."

https://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/era-communication-towards-better-access-to-scientific-information_en.pdf

US Dept of Health & Human Services releases plans for public access to federally funded research

On February 27, 2015, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released implementation plans for five HHS agencies based on a common policy approach in response to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) 2013 memorandum regarding public access to federally funded research. The OSTP memorandum directed federal agencies with R&D budgets of $100 million or more to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication.

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With regards to digital data, HHS and each agency see digital data policies as “evolving” and recognize that much of the HHS agencies’ funded digital data resides externally to these agencies. To date, HHS has no shared repository for deposit of HHS agencies’ digital data. An internal HHS Enterprise Data Inventory will serve as the catalog for all HHS data assets and will, over time, be linked to HealthData.gov, a platform through which the public will be able to locate and access federally funded research data. A valuable element of the HHS release regarding digital data is the development of a data-management template by the CDC that will standardize the types and format of information to be submitted by researchers in their data-management plans.
Importantly, HHS calls for the “support for training and workforce development related to scientific data management, analysis, storage, preservation, and stewardship of data.”

More at: http://www.arl.org/news/community-updates/3545-hhs-releases-plans-for-public-access-to-federally-funded-research#.VP4kQqMbrct

NASA Plan for Increasing Access to the Results of Scientific Research

NASA Plan for Increasing Access to the   Results of Scientific Research (Digital Scientific Data and Peer‐Reviewed Publications)

Available from :
http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2014/12/05/NASA_Plan_for_increasing_access_to_results_of_federally_funded_research.pdf