Scholarly Communication @ UTampa

Beginning January 2026, authors with federally sponsored research are required to make their research publications and supporting data publicly available immediately, with no embargo. Authors must deposit the accepted manuscript version of an article in a repository managed by the agency or their institution. Alternatively, authors may deposit the version of record if the article is published Open Access.   

A 2022 memorandum from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy: Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research set these new guidelines. The memorandum directs all federal agencies that provide funding to researchers to develop guidelines for how the outputs from funded projects will be publicly shared.  

All funding agencies will also start requiring persistent identifiers, such as DOIs for articles and data and ORCID IDs for researchers. These requirements and the implementation dates vary by agency. The Macdonald-Kelce Library works with DataCite to create DOIs for research created by the UT community. The Library also has an Institutional Repository for UT researchers to deposit their work.

More on the Policies

• See Agency Public Access Plans and Guidance (Science.gov)
• See OSTP Public Access Memo Guidance (SPARC)