EAGER: Open Infrastructure to Reduce Burden on Researchers and Federal Agencies

约翰霍普金斯大学与其他六个机构合作，提出设计一套建议、用例、规范和工作流程，将手稿的存款转变为联邦机构存储库，从而减轻研究人员、大学和联邦机构的负担。这种早期的探索性研究致力于为项目涉及多个机构、联邦机构工作流程差异很大且信息完整性至关重要时出现的问题制定解决方案。随着研究越来越趋同，研究人员、大学和资助机构面临的环境越来越复杂的重大风险。通过将赠款或奖励数据与文章、数据或软件等主要研究对象绑定，拟议的研究代表了对研究人员和大学生产力和协作进行数据分析的重要一步。拟议的工作有可能对每一所接受联邦资助的大学和每一个制定公共访问合规政策的联邦资助机构产生积极影响。PI的公共访问提交系统（PASS）系统的早期实施已被证明与NIH PubMed Central合作。 但是扩展到PubMedCentral之外需要探索性的研究，例如建立同时向多个联邦资助库和机构库提交出版物的逻辑。 研究问题包括第三方应用程序（如PASS系统）如何管理跨机构赠款数据、身份和存款工作流程。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Johns Hopkins University, in partnership with six other institutions, proposes to design a set of recommendations, use cases, specifications, and workflows that will transform the deposit of manuscripts into federal agency repositories, thereby reducing burden on researchers, universities, and federal agencies. This early exploratory research undertakes to develop solutions for issues that arise when projects are multi-institution, federal agency workflows are vastly different, and the integrity of information is critical. As research becomes increasingly convergent, there is a major risk of an increasingly complex environment for investigators, universities, and funding agencies. By binding grants or award data to primary research objects such as articles, data, or software, the proposed research represents an important step toward data analytics on researcher and university productivity and collaboration. The proposed work has the potential to positively impact every university that receives federal funding and every federal funding agency with a public access compliance policy.An early implementation of the PI's Public Access Submission System (PASS) system has been shown to work with the NIH PubMed Central. But scaling beyond PubMedCentral requires exploratory research such as to establish the logic for simultaneous submission of a publication to multiple federal grant repositories and institution repositories. Research questions include how a third-party applications such as the PASS system, manage cross-institutional grants data, identities, and deposit workflows.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.