A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a public workshop to inform the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as they develop or update policies to enhance public access to the results of HHS-funded research. The workshop will focus on topics related to scholarly publications and convene interested individuals and communities, including authors, investigators, research institutions, libraries, scholarly publishers, scientific societies, healthcare providers, patients, students, educators, and research participants.
The workshop will feature invited presentations and discussions addressing:

• Additional steps that agencies could consider to help ensure that changes to public access policies promote equity in publication opportunities for investigators supported by HHS agencies- with a particular focus on the NIH, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration for Community Living (ACL), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)- and do not create new or reinforce existing inequities in publishing opportunities.
• Steps for improving equity in access and accessibility of publications by diverse communities of users, in addition to removal of the currently-allowable 12-month embargo period for federally-supported publications.
• Effective approaches for monitoring trends in publication fees and impacts on affected communities, including perspectives on what constitutes a “reasonable” cost.
• Considerations to increase findability and transparency of research, including efforts to improve use of persistent identifiers (PIDs) (e.g., ORCID IDs, DOIs, RoR ID) and metadata, as well as institutions and researchers’ experiences with adoption of different identifiers across publications and research data.

The planning committee will develop the agenda, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate or identify moderators for the discussions. A proceedings-in-brief of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.