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paragraph--type--header paragraph--view-mode--default ies-header-component" id=""> <h2>IES Policy Regarding Public Access to Research</h2> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text-component paragraph--view-mode--default ies-text-component" id=""> <div class="field field--name-field-text-component-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><div> <div class="field field--name-field-media-document field--type-file field--label-hidden field__item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf"><a href="/sites/default/files/ies/document/2024/10/Public%20Access%20Plan.pdf" type="application/pdf">Public access to research policy</a></span> <span>(351.14 KB)</span> </div> </div> <p>IES is implementing a new Public Access Plan over the course of Fiscal Years (FY) 2025 and 2026 that will affect all new awardees. Requests for Applications (RFAs) and for Proposals (RFPs) released in the 2024 calendar year will reflect new requirements for awards to be made in Fiscal Year 2025 (which begins on October 1, 2024). IES's new Public Access Plan brings IES policy into alignment with common open science standards, and reflects priorities outlined in <a href="https://ies.ed.gov/sites/default/files/ies/document/2025/01/08-2022-OSTP-Public-access-Memo.pdf">the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) guidance</a> issued in August 2022. These changes reflect a commitment to equity and increasing public access to and discoverability of federally funded research across U.S. funding agencies.</p><p>The new Public Access Plan continues IES' strong commitment to open science practices including its commitment to <a href="https://ies.ed.gov/use-work/standards-excellence-education-research-seer">pre-registration</a> and <a href="https://ies.ed.gov/seer/open_data.asp">open access</a> to both publications and data. Awards made prior to October 1, 2024 are subject to the public access requirements outlined in the RFA/RFP to which the awardee applied, and are addressed in the Performance Agreement/Contract established in the year that the award was made.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--header paragraph--view-mode--default ies-header-component" id=""> <h3>Important changes to public access requirements that will directly affect researchers funded through IES</h3> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--accordion-expanded-component paragraph--view-mode--default ies-accordion-expanded-component" id="ies-accordion-expanded-component-5493"> <div class="ies-accordion-expanded-component__section"> <div class="ies-accordion-expanded-component__tab-bar ies-accordion-expanded-component__tab-bar--3" role="tablist"> <button class="ies-accordion-expanded-component__tab" role="tab" aria-expanded="false" role="region" tabindex="0" id="ies-accordion-expanded-component__tab-5487" data-controls="ies-accordion-expanded-component__content-5487" aria-controls="ies-accordion-expanded-component__content-5487"> <div class="ies-accordion-expanded-component__tab-title"> <span id="ies-accordion-expanded-component__label-5487">All publications stemming from federally funded work will be made freely available to the public immediately following publication.</span> <span class="material-icons-outlined expand" aria-hidden="true">add</span> <span class="material-icons-outlined collapse" aria-hidden="true">remove</span> </div> </button> <button class="ies-accordion-expanded-component__tab" role="tab" aria-expanded="false" role="region" tabindex="0" id="ies-accordion-expanded-component__tab-5489" data-controls="ies-accordion-expanded-component__content-5489" aria-controls="ies-accordion-expanded-component__content-5489"> <div class="ies-accordion-expanded-component__tab-title"> <span id="ies-accordion-expanded-component__label-5489">Data sharing will be required at time of publication or, if unpublished, five years after the IES award ends, whichever comes first.</span> <span class="material-icons-outlined expand" aria-hidden="true">add</span> <span class="material-icons-outlined collapse" aria-hidden="true">remove</span> </div> </button> <button class="ies-accordion-expanded-component__tab" role="tab" aria-expanded="false" role="region" tabindex="0" id="ies-accordion-expanded-component__tab-5492" data-controls="ies-accordion-expanded-component__content-5492" aria-controls="ies-accordion-expanded-component__content-5492"> <div class="ies-accordion-expanded-component__tab-title"> <span id="ies-accordion-expanded-component__label-5492">Unique digital persistent identifiers (PIDs) will need to be established for all key personnel, publications, awards, and datasets.</span> <span class="material-icons-outlined expand" aria-hidden="true">add</span> <span class="material-icons-outlined collapse" aria-hidden="true">remove</span> </div> </button> </div> </div> <div class="ies-accordion-expanded-component__content" id="ies-accordion-expanded-component__content-5487" aria-labelledby="ies-accordion-expanded-component__label-5487" tabindex="0"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--accordion-expanded-tab paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--accordion-expanded-tab"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12"> <div class="ies-tab-component__column ies-tab-component__column-left"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text-component paragraph--view-mode--default ies-text-component" id=""> <div class="field field--name-field-text-component-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Open access must be granted <em>as soon as the article is published </em>for all articles proceeding from federal research funding. This requirement is being implemented across all U.S. federal funding agencies. There will no longer be a 12-month embargo for articles that are not published open access (OA). IES awardees receiving funds after October 1, 2024, will need to ensure (either through your publisher or your own efforts) that a full-text version of the published article is uploaded to <a href="https://eric.ed.gov/">ERIC</a> <u>immediately upon publication</u>. To facilitate this transition, we encourage all awardees to publish their work in OA journals where feasible, and to budget for Article Processing Charges (APCs) accordingly. Additional guidance will be provided to support researchers in complying with this new requirement.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ies-accordion-expanded-component__content" id="ies-accordion-expanded-component__content-5489" aria-labelledby="ies-accordion-expanded-component__label-5489" tabindex="0"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--accordion-expanded-tab paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--accordion-expanded-tab"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12"> <div class="ies-tab-component__column ies-tab-component__column-left"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text-component paragraph--view-mode--default ies-text-component" id=""> <div class="field field--name-field-text-component-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>IES applications have shifted from requesting a data management plan (DMP) to a data <em>sharing</em> and management plan (DSMP) to foreground the shift in emphasis to routine data sharing. Specific plans for sharing data and codes in an appropriate repository will need to be included in the DSMP. Applications for all research project types must include a DSMP starting in FY2025. <u>The Public Access Plan</u> below, section 7.2 describes conditions under which data may be exempt from sharing requirements, but all applications must indicate which data will and will not be shared, and articulate any grounds for exclusion. Each RFA will outline the required elements to include in the DSMP.</p><div> <div class="field field--name-field-media-document field--type-file field--label-hidden field__item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf"><a href="/sites/default/files/ies/document/2024/10/Public%20Access%20Plan.pdf" type="application/pdf">Public access to research policy</a></span> <span>(351.14 KB)</span> </div> </div> <p>To ensure that data may be shared immediately upon publication, data curation will need to occur <em>in advance</em> of publication. One best practice approach is to prepare data files for sharing prior to data collection so that data are ready for sharing by the time data collection is complete (see <a href="https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/2022004/">Sharing Study Data: A Guide for Education Researchers</a>). PIs may wish to budget for data curation in their applications to support this activity.</p><p>In anticipation of new requirements, we encourage researchers to move away from hosting data sets on personal websites or making them available solely upon request. IES will be providing additional guidance on selection of an appropriate publicly-available data repository.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ies-accordion-expanded-component__content" id="ies-accordion-expanded-component__content-5492" aria-labelledby="ies-accordion-expanded-component__label-5492" tabindex="0"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--accordion-expanded-tab paragraph--view-mode--default paragraph--accordion-expanded-tab"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-12 col-lg-12"> <div class="ies-tab-component__column ies-tab-component__column-left"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text-component paragraph--view-mode--default ies-text-component" id=""> <div class="field field--name-field-text-component-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Digital object identifiers (DOIs) for journal articles are PIDs that uniquely identify a single version of a single publication and can be used to identify and reference that specific publication. This same concept is now being extended to other aspects of the research enterprise including individuals, grant and contract awards, and datasets. This will facilitate discoverability of information by researchers and the public and will help IES track the impact of its funding investments.</p><p>Starting in FY2024, all key personnel on new IES-funded projects are required to establish an individual digital PID (such as ORCID, see https://orcid.org/) prior to award. We encourage but do not yet require key personnel to register with ORCID prior to submitting their applications/proposals.</p><p>New guidance for PID conventions for awards and for data linked to IES funding is forthcoming.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text-component paragraph--view-mode--default ies-text-component" id=""> <div class="field field--name-field-text-component-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Check back regularly for additional updates on IES's Public Access Plan implementation.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--header paragraph--view-mode--default ies-header-component" id=""> <h2>Policy Statement on Public Access to Data Resulting from IES Funded Grants</h2> </div> </div> <div class="field__item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text-component paragraph--view-mode--default ies-text-component" id=""> <div class="field field--name-field-text-component-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is committed to advancing education research through providing access to scientific data collected through its grant-funded research programs. Such access provides opportunities for other researchers to review, confirm or challenge study findings, which is an important aspect of the scientific process. In addition, providing access to data can enhance scientific inquiry through a variety of other analytic activities, including the use of shared data to: test alternative theories or hypotheses; explore different sets of research questions than those targeted by the original researchers; combine data from multiple sources to provide potential new insights and areas of inquiry; and/or conduct methodological studies to advance education research methods and statistical analyses.</p><p>The purpose of this document is to describe IES policy on providing access to research data collected through grants funded by its two research centers: the National Center for Education Research and the National Center for Special Education Research. Starting with the release of the FY2013 Request for Applications researchers applying for Goal Four Effectiveness grants under competitions 84.305A for Education Research or 84.324A for Special Education Research were required to include a data management plan (DMP) in their application. This requirement was extended to include Goal Three Efficacy and Replication grants under these competitions starting in FY2015, and to the Research Networks on Critical Problems of Policy and Practice (84.305N) competition for FY2016. For the purposes referred to in this policy statement, final research data are the recorded factual material commonly accepted in the scientific community as necessary to document and support research findings.1 For most studies, an electronic file will constitute the final research data. This data set will include the final, cleaned data and may include both original data and derived variables which will be fully described in accompanying documentation.</p><p>Specific instructions for including the DMP in applications were included in the Request for Applications for these two grant competitions. All Goal Four Effectiveness and Goal Three Efficacy applications must include a plan that describes the data to be shared, the method of sharing (e.g., through the Principal Investigator or data repository), the written documentation that will accompany the data, the plan for preventing disclosure of personally identifiable information, and the timeline and costs for data sharing.</p><p>Researchers funded by IES must be committed to protecting the rights and privacy of human subjects at all times. Providing access to data must not compromise this commitment. IES recognizes that data sharing may be complicated or limited by institutional policies, local Institutional Review Board (IRB) rules, as well as state and Federal laws and regulations that address issues of the rights and privacy of human subjects. Strategies for making data accessible should be addressed early in the planning process to allow time necessary to work with IRBs and those within the education settings to be studied. It is the responsibility of the researchers to develop a DMP that protects the rights of study participants and confidentiality of the data, as required by their IRB and state and Federal laws and regulations. Data that are to be shared should be free of identifiers that would allow linkages to individuals participating in the research as well as other elements that could lead to deductive disclosure of the individual study participants. 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