Summary

Description

This plan sets forth a framework for increasing access to the results of NSF-funded research and leverages existing NSF policies that provide for data sharing, data management plans, and evaluation, monitoring, and compliance. NSF will continue to identify additional approaches, involving public and private sector entities, and will continue efforts to improve public access to research data. NSF will explore, along with other agencies, how best to achieve improved public access, including data storage and preservation, discoverability, and reuse with a particular focus on data underlying the conclusions of peer-reviewed scientific publications resulting from federally funded scientific research.