In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memo outlining new requirements that research funded by the public-- such as research resulting from grants from federal agencies-- must be publicly available within a certain time period. All federal grantmaking agencies were given a timeline for establishing public access policies, repositories or other hosting platforms for this information, and guidelines for researchers awarded grant funding from these agencies to make their work publicly accessible. Since then, several other grantmaking institutions have followed in requiring public access to the work they fund, including research funded by the state of California. Below are resources for navigating these requirements.
| Issuing Body | Impacts | Read More |
| Harvard University | Harvard Faculty | Harvard Open Access Policy, 2008 |
| White House Office of Science and Technology Policy | United States Federal Agency-funded Research | OSTP Memorandum Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research, 2013 |
| University of California (UC) | UC Faculty | University of California (UC) Systemwide Academic Senate Open Access Policy, 2013 |
| State of California | California State Agency-funded Research | California Assembly Bill 609: California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act, 2014 |
| European Research Council | Research funded by multiple European Union and UK grantmakers | European Research Council COAlition S/Plan S, 2018 |
| Agency | Requirements |
| United States Federal Agencies | Public Access Plans for Federally-Funded Research Publications, Data, and Data-Management Plans |
| California State Agencies | AB 2192: State-funded research: Grant requirements |
In addition to making published research publicly available (not behind subscription paywalls), many grants require data management plans (DMPs). One easy way to find resources for creating a DMP is to Google "data management plan" and limit results to the site of your funding agency. For example:
"data management plan" site:usgs.gov
"data management plan" site:usda.gov
Coming soon! Guide to Data Management Plans