USDA released its Public Access Plan in June 2023. USDA has not yet released its updated Public Access Policy.
Until the plan is updated, the plan released January 1, 2016, is in effect.
USDA requires its grantees to:
- Submit an electronic version of final peer-reviewed and accepted manuscripts to the PubAg system.
- Make key portions of research data available to all USDA scientist by locating data sets in the USDA data catalog (registry of datasets).