{"id":3510,"date":"2018-11-16T14:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2018-11-16T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:50:27","slug":"spotlight-mit-libraries-collaborates-on-new-public-access-submission-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/2018\/spotlight-mit-libraries-collaborates-on-new-public-access-submission-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: MIT Libraries collaborate on new Public Access Submission System"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johns Hopkins University\u2019s\u00a0Sheridan Libraries<\/a>, in collaboration with the Harvard University\u00a0Office for Scholarly Communication<\/a>, the\u00a0MIT Libraries<\/a>, and with inspiration from Jeff Spies, formerly of the Center for Open Science, have developed the Public Access Submission System, or\u00a0PASS<\/a>. The innovative web application helps researchers comply simultaneously with the open access policies of both their funders and their institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe developed PASS as part of the launch of the\u00a0open access policy<\/a>\u00a0at Johns Hopkins University, but recognize that it can help researchers at any institution,\u201d said\u00a0Winston Tabb<\/a>, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums and co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Open Access Committee. \u201cWe are proud to partner with our colleagues at Harvard and MIT to develop a seamless and efficient platform that facilitates the free sharing of knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

While many federal agencies have policies that require research results to be made publicly accessible, the requirements to comply with these policies differ greatly from one agency to another. The varied processes for compliance have become burdensome for researchers and their institutions. For research that is funded by multiple agencies, it can be especially daunting to ensure compliance with each funder\u2019s access policy.<\/p>\n

At the same time, many universities are implementing open access policies to ensure that research originating from their campus is as accessible as possible. As a result, researchers can be subject to multiple policies, each with its own workflow and requirements.<\/p>\n

\u201cResearchers face a complex set of workflows if their only paths to compliance are different submission interfaces at different funders and institutions,\u201d said\u00a0Sayeed Choudhury<\/a>, associate dean for research management at the Sheridan Libraries and Hodson Director of its\u00a0Digital Research and Curation Center<\/a>. \u201cThe Sheridan Libraries led the creation of PASS to offer a harmonized approach, where one can simultaneously deposit an article into PubMedCentral and an institutional repository. Our road map includes deposit of articles and data into a range of additional repositories.\u201d<\/p>\n

The initial release of PASS\u00a0launched<\/a>\u00a0at Hopkins in July 2018. It provides functionality that reduces burden on, and increases value for, researchers who are required to submit articles for public access compliance. PASS automatically completes metadata fields based on DOIs (digital object identifiers), attaches institutional grants data to articles, and supports entry of free text descriptions, which can subsequently be used for data analytics.<\/p>\n

Using standard protocols for deposit such as SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository\u00a0Deposit)\u00a0and National Institutes of Health (NIH) programmatic interfaces, PASS simultaneously deposits content into PubMedCentral and institutional repositories. PASS also includes dashboards that display submission status for articles and associated NIH identifiers that are required to demonstrate compliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cPASS is an excellent example of an institution taking the initiative to develop community-supported open infrastructure that supports researchers by meeting them where it counts\u2014in their workflow,\u201d said Heather Joseph, executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC<\/a>). \u201cBy connecting articles to the underlying grants, PASS also gives institutions a new opportunity to collect and analyze crucial data related to grants, articles, and eventually cited data.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to identifying requirements for the initial launch of PASS, in Spring 2019 Harvard will pilot the platform with their health sciences divisions and MIT will conduct user testing on it with their life sciences researchers. These efforts will expand PASS in a manner that will support its adoption by other institutions, to either use it locally or as software as a service.<\/p>\n

\u201cRealizing a future where knowledge is shared freely is going to require institutions to work in partnership,\u201d said Chris Bourg, director of libraries at MIT. \u201cAn open platform like PASS is a perfect example of a collaborative solution that will expand access to research and scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n

PASS is an open source software project. The full code base, data model, and Docker containers can be found on\u00a0GitHub<\/a>. The development team plans to collect feedback on the initial release and consider other improvements and invites other institutions to participate in its development and use.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hope is that other institutions adopt PASS and we collaboratively build and expand the platform,\u201d said Choudhury.<\/p>\n

For mor<\/em>e information about PASS, please contact\u00a0sayeed@jhu.edu.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Originally posted on the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries blog<\/a>, November 13, 2018, by Heather Stalfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johns Hopkins University\u2019s\u00a0Sheridan Libraries, in collaboration with the Harvard University\u00a0Office for Scholarly Communication, the\u00a0MIT Libraries, and with inspiration from Jeff Spies, formerly of the Center for Open Science, have developed the Public Access Submission System, or\u00a0PASS.<\/a> The innovative web application helps researchers comply simultaneously with the open access policies of both their funders and their institutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe developed PASS as part of the launch of the\u00a0open access policy\u00a0at Johns Hopkins University, but recognize that it can help researchers at any institution,\u201d said\u00a0Winston Tabb<\/a>, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and Museums and co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Open Access Committee. \u201cWe are proud to partner with our colleagues at Harvard and MIT to develop a seamless and efficient platform that facilitates the free sharing of knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[9],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-dspacemit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}