EAGER: Investigating reasonable costs to achieve public access to federally funded research and scientific data

EAGER：调查合理成本以实现公众获取联邦资助的研究和科学数据

• 批准号: 2330827
• 负责人: Katherine Skinner
• 金额: $ 29.95万
• 依托单位: Code for Science and Society Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330827&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Investigating; reasonable; costs; achieve

This project will investigate costs involved in publishing research outputs in a range of publicly accessible venues. Using a mixed research model, the project will produce insights, tools, and intervention strategies to highlight and mitigate current disparities between institutions and researchers in different research tiers and institution types. National adoption of open science practices aims to ensure all that all citizens benefit from immediate and free access to federally funded research. However, even when those digital research outputs are free for users, their publication and management are not “free.” This raises significant questions regarding who should pay for these processes and how much. As researchers, research offices, scholarly societies, publishers, libraries, and various data management and scholarly communication infrastructure providers actively grapple with emerging policy changes, this research will address key questions: 1) What are the costs of publishing publicly available research, and how do these differ across publication types, institution types, and disciplines; 2) What do US researchers and research institutions pay directly or indirectly (e.g., through transformative agreements) to make federally funded outputs publicly available; 3) What workflows and decision chains do researchers and their research institutions use to secure appropriate public access channels for research outputs; and 4) How do researchers and research institutions currently establish a threshold for reasonable cost for publicly available venues, and do they budget this as allowable expense? As this research is conducted, the project will especially look for differences in both thought and action across institutional types and tiers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将调查在一系列可公开访问的场所发布研究成果所涉及的成本，该项目将产生见解、工具和干预策略，以突出和减轻不同研究层次的机构和研究人员之间的当前差异。国家采用开放科学实践的目的是确保所有公民都能立即免费获得联邦资助的研究成果。然而，即使这些数字研究成果对用户免费，其出版和管理也不是“免费的”。这引发了关于谁应该支付这些费用的重大问题随着研究人员、研究办公室、学术团体、出版商、图书馆以及各种数据管理和学术交流基础设施提供商积极应对新出现的政策变化，本研究将解决以下关键问题：1）公开出版的成本是多少。可用的研究，以及这些在出版物类型、机构类型和学科之间有何不同；2) 美国研究人员和研究机构直接或间接支付什么费用（例如通过变革性协议）以公开获得联邦资助的成果；和决定研究人员及其研究机构使用哪些链来确保研究成果的适当公共获取渠道；以及 4) 研究人员和研究机构目前如何确定公共场所的合理成本门槛，以及他们是否将其作为允许的费用进行预算？研究进行后，该项目将特别寻找跨机构类型和层级的思想和行动的差异。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。