Public Access to DOE Scientific Publications

Public Access to DOE Scientific Publications:

Communications Opportunities

Brian Hitson

Acting Director

Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Office of Science

U.S. Department of Energy

Angles to Cover

• What does "public access" mean?

• How will we implement it?

• What are the public affairs and communications opportunities?

Q. What does "public access" mean (for purposes of this briefing)?

A. Free access to electronic scholarly publications (i.e., final, peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts or published journal articles) resulting from DOE R&D funding, after some "embargo period," or administrative interval.

Public Access in the U.S. - A Short History

• In general, public access authority has existed but has not been exercised.

• Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 mandated public access for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through PubMed Central (PMC)

• America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010
  • “establish priorities for coordinating the development of any Federal science agency policies related to public access to the results of federally funded research . . .”
  • Two OSTP Task Forces (Scholarly Publications and Digital Data)
  • Two WhiteHouse.gov Requests for Information (public comment)

• OSTP’s February 22, 2013, memo to agency heads requiring public access plans

• Other legislative activity

The OSTP Memo . . . What Does It Require?

For publications . . .

• “ . . . the public can read, download . . . final peer-reviewed manuscripts or final published documents . . .”

• “ . . . full public access to publications’ metadata without charge . . .”

• “ . . . use a twelve-month embargo period . . . [or] tailor its plan as necessary . . .”

• “Encourage public-private collaboration . . .”

• “Ensure that attribution to authors, journals, and original publishers is maintained.”

• “Ensure that publications and metadata are stored in an archival solution that provides for long-term preservation and access . . . without charge . . .”

DOE Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP)

• OSTI manages agency-wide program.

• 17 National Labs; ~4,000 grantees

• STI = Unclassified, controlled, and classified R&D results

• Authorities: 

• Public Law, CFR, 

• DOE O 241.1B

• STI Receipts: 

FY11         FY12          FY13

22,570      20,221       30,730

OSTI and Public Access

• Providing Public Access since 1947. All digital since 2000.
  • Technical reports
  • Patents
  • Video
  • Software
  • E-prints

Providing access to journal literature is expansion of current business and fits well with our business model.

Public Access

Article/Manuscript Output by Agency

DOD 13,824

DOE 27,446

NIH 64,383

NSF 43,187

Our solution - PAGES: Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science 

• National Institutes of Health
• National Science Foundation
• Department of Energy
• Department of Defense
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Department of Veterans Affairs
• Department of Commerce
• Department of Agriculture
• Centers for Disease Control
• Environmental Protection Agency
• U.S. Geological Survey
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
• Department of Homeland Security
• Department of Education
• Department of Transportation

"Best Available Version" Concept

DOE Ingest Stream (E-Link)  Collaboration with publishers via CHORUS

Best Available Version

We are collaborating with publishers to take advantage of their public access offerings.

CHORUS – the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States – offers a single feed from publishers.

PAGES is a Hybrid, Distributed Approach

Centralized metadata

Decentralized full-text articles and manuscripts, using a) STIP and DOE/institutional repositories and b) CHORUS

• Populating PAGES
  • Beta version consists of several thousand DOE accepted manuscripts and articles from CHORUS pilot project.
  • Anticipate 25,000-30,000 manuscripts/articles per year after embargo period.

• PAGES is ready for near-term deployment thanks to. . . 
  • DOE's existing ingest system and network - the Scientific and Technical Information Program (STIP), and
  • Experience with hybrid dissemination products (e.g., technical reports).

PAGES^Beta Search Engine

Publication Break-Out by Lab

LBNL - 2,928

ORNL - 2,243

ANL - 2,150

LANL - 2,028

PNNL - 1,367

BNL - 1,216

LLNL - 1,209

SNL - 972

NREL - 451

FNAL - 400

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Argonne National Laboratory
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Sandia National Laboratories
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• Ames Laboratory
• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Idaho National Laboratory
• Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory
• Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
• Savannah River National Laboratory
• SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
• Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
• New Brunswick Laboratory
• Radiological and Environmental Sciences Laboratory

Public Affairs and Communications Opportunities from Public Access and PAGES

• Preparing/Making “news” just as DOE-/Lab-affiliated articles are published
  • PAGES could supply RSS feed to DOE and Lab Public Affairs for articles slated for publication

• Developing histories or annual reports of publication outputs

• Publicizing publications metrics and impacts (e.g., citation rates, cross-disciplinary impacts)

• Collaborating with SCPA and OSTI on publications recognition (e.g., “Top 50 Articles from DOE R&D Programs”)

• Displaying “real-time” feeds of newly-accessible articles/manuscripts

• Promoting PAGES (e.g., links from Lab websites, PAGES API feeds to Lab websites)

Questions?

For any additional follow-up questions, please contact

Brian Hitson, Acting Director

Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Office of Science

U.S. Department of Energy

hitsonb@osti.gov

(865) 576-1199