DOE Public Access Essentials (Updated)

Source:  US Department of Energy Public Access Plan

Impacts:  Peer-reviewed, scholarly publications derived from research arising from activities undertaken with any level of DOE funding.

Timeline:  Scholarly works published on or after October 1, 2024, should be submitted to the DOE’s PAGES repository via the E-Link manuscript submission system by the work’s publication date. Scholarly works published before the October 1 date should be submitted as soon as possible. The policy will be fully implemented on October 1, 2025, for all scholarly works.

Who Submits:  Authors, associated PI’s or 3rd parties (grant managers, delegates, etc.)

What to Submit:  Peer-reviewed research articles accepted for publication in scholarly journals, as well as peer-reviewed book chapters, editorials, and peer-reviewed conference proceedings published in other scholarly outlets. Alternatively, if the publication is published as OA, the submitter may provide the OA work, or a link to the OA work on the publisher’s website or author’s institutional repository, provided there are no restrictions on the DOE utilizing the OA article.

Metadata accompanying scholarly works should include author names, affiliations, sources of funding, journal title, date of publication, and the digital object identifier (DOI) for the article version of record.

Format:  Microsoft Word, PDF, or OpenOffice/OpenDocument

Where to Submit:   Energy Link System (E-Link)

Repository:   Public Access Gateway for Energy & Science (PAGES)

E-Link Notes:

• Open access publications must include an OA statement or Creative Commons license statement.
• Award numbers are required to submit papers.
• Multiple DOE awards acknowledged on a single paper may be added to a submission using semi-colons.
• Multiple DOE contract/award recipients on a single paper can be identified on the same submission by using semi-colons to separate institutions.