Association of Research Libraries
To support the initial development and launch of the SHARE Notification System, a structured way to report and notify parties of research release events
In 2013, a White House Office of Science & Technology Policy directive outlined new open-access expectations for research products funded by the federal government. One question left open by the directive, however, is how exactly those materials should be managed and made discoverable, particularly for the long term. Funds from this grant support a project by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to facilitate compliance with the OSTP directive by developing a platform for reporting and notifying parties of events related to the release of publicly and privately funded research. Partnering with the Association of American Universities and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, the ARL will create a multi-institutional platform, the SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE), that will tie together existing university-based institutional repositories into a coherent discovery and compliance tracking system. When completed, SHARE will function as connective tissue that will enable others to build user-facing services that build on the multi-institutional architecture, leveraging university investments in their own institutional repositories and providing a valuable resource to help university offices of sponsored research meet their reporting and compliance-tracking obligations.