Public Access to Results of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-Funded Scientific Research

This document describes the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) plan to increase public access to: 1) scientific and scholarly publications produced with FWS funding as a primary purpose of and required deliverable for that funding or by FWS staff during duty hours, 2) the underlying scientific data associated with those publications, and 3) any other scientific data produced with FWS funding that is a required deliverable for that funding or by FWS staff during duty hours unassociated with any publication in accordance with the Department of the Interior’s (Department) Public Access Plan (2023), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) requirements (2022), and the Evidence Act (2018).