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NSF Releases Plan to Increase Public Access to NSF-Funded Data, Research

March 26, 2015

The National Science Foundation (NSF) unveiled a framework to increase public access to scientific publications and digital scientific data funded by NSF grants. The plan, entitled Today’s Data, Tomorrow’s Discoveries, will require that NSF-funded research presented in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and papers in juried conference proceedings or transactions be deposited in a database within one year of publication for the public to download, read, and analyze. The author(s) also must make the meta-data available for download.  Read the announcement and plan…

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