Getting Published
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Funding Guides
- Funding at ASUThe first place to look for ASU researchers. Search across several funding opportunity resources and set up customized alerts based on your research interests.
- DimensionsBrings together grants, publications, citations, alternative metrics, clinical trials, patents and policy documents in one platform that enables users to find and access the relevant information, analyze the academic and broader outcomes of research, and gather insights to inform future strategy.
- Grants.govCompilation of federal grants, managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Philanthropic Funding OpportunitiesThis list of Philanthropic Funding sources is created by ASU Foundation's Office of Corporate and Foundation Relationships, which helps ASU faculty identify appropriate resources to advance their work and build meaningful relationships with ASU's network of benefactors.
- Foundation Directory OnlineOnly available to ASU affiliates. Includes information on over 96,000 U.S. foundations and corporate donors, 1.5 million recent grants, and more than 400,000 key decision makers.
- Research AcademyA new platform from ASU's Office for Knowledge Enterprise Development which provides wealth of tutorials and other information about the research process at ASU.
- Early Career Funding, Awards, and Other FundingCrowdsourced spreadsheet of funding opportunities available to early career researchers.
- Grant SpaceA collection of grant proposals, letters of inquiry, business plans, and other documents you need to make your case to funders. (must register for an account to view documents)
Funding Agency Policies
Due to the growing demand for a visible and public return on funded research, more and more funding agencies are adopting open access or data-archiving mandates as a condition of funding. Here are some of the largest non-governmental policies:
- Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationWe have adopted an Open Access policy that enables the unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research funded, in whole or in part, by the foundation, including any underlying data sets.
- Howard Hughes Medical InstituteThese policies also are intended to ensure that our research furthers the public good and thus set forth guidelines for making research materials, tools, and publications widely accessible within the scientific community and beyond.
- The Wellcome TrustThe Wellcome Trust supports unrestricted access to the published output of research as a fundamental part of its charitable mission and a public benefit to be encouraged wherever possible.
- Wellcome Trust Policy on data, software and materials management and sharingNew policy, updated on July 24, 2017.
- SHERPA/JULIETInternational list of funding agencies' open access publishing, archiving, and data archiving policies
- Open Research Funders GroupA partnership of funding organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs. Inaugural members are: the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the American Heart Association, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
U.S. funding agencies
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a memorandum, "Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research" on August 25th, 2022 directing all federal agencies to update their public access policies and require all federally funded research to be free and immediately accessible. This expands on the 2013 Memorandum, which only required certain federal agencies to provide publicly accessible research and data within 12 months of publication. The updated guidance now requires any research that receives federal funding to be freely accessible without a delay. Agencies with research and development expenditures of at least $100 million annually will submit their initial public access plan updates by February 21, 2023. Agencies with smaller research and development expenditures will have until August 20, 2023. All federal agencies must have updated plans in place by December 31st, 2025. Further guidance on this will be forthcoming, and researchers who receive federal funding may reach out to us with questions about making their publications and data freely accessible.
Here are some resources to help stay informed.
- OSTP 2013 & 2022 Public Access Memo ComparisonThis comparison breaks down the 2013 and 2022 Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) public access guidance into sections for a quick side-by-side comparison of ten key components, including embargo period, data policies, formats, and metadata expectations.
- Frequently Asked Questions: 2022 Public Access Policy GuidanceFrom the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
- FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Advance Open and Equitable ResearchOSTP launches Year of Open Science to advance national open science policies across the federal government in 2023, including new grant funding, improvements in research infrastructure, broadened research participation for emerging scholars, and expanded opportunities for public engagement.
- SPARC Fact Sheet on the 2022 White House OSTP MemoA brief overview of the policy guidance set out by the WHOSTP for federal funding agencies to include in their updated plans.
- HELIOS 2022 OSTP Memo OverviewA brief infographic outlining key elements of the 2022 OSTP memo, provided by HELIOS (Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship)
- Implementation of the 2013 Public Access Programs in Federal AgenciesThe following list provides links to the plans published by federal agencies subject to the 2013 OSTP memo. Including:
1) Public Access Plans of U.S. Federal Agencies
2) Award Dates Covered Under Public Access Policies for Publication and for Data Management Plans - Federal Agency Article and Data Sharing RequirementsThis site, managed by SPARC, tracks, compares, and interprets U.S. federal funding agency requirements for sharing research articles and data.
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