HRA Open - Health Research Alliance

About HRA Open

HRA Open is a web-based service sponsored by the HRA that not only promotes open science, but also enables HRA member-funded awardees to link grant support to awardees’ research outputs. We are excited to provide this service to HRA members in an effort to make science more OPEN and to enhance the ability to track the outputs of your funded research! If you are interested in participating scroll to the bottom and submit the form. Questions? Email maryrose at healthra dot org.

To accomplish these goals, HRA Open enables awardees to upload and share publications into PubMed Central (PMC) via the NIH Manuscript

Resources

Link to the HRA Open portal
HRA Open administrator guide. Staff at HRA member organizations are the administrators of this system.
Template email to invite your awardees to deposit their publications and other research outputs using HRA Open.
HRA Open Guide for Awardees
Link to PMC and Research Funder Policies
Search for articles deposited by HRA member-funded awardees here

Submission system (NIHMS). Awardees are also encouraged to share ALL research outputs via Figshare. The HRA Open Platform creates linkages between grants, articles, and research outputs.

The NIH NIHMS system facilitates the submission process of peer-reviewed manuscripts for inclusion in PubMed Central in compliance with the NIH or participating funder’s public access policy. Further information on the participating funders (including HRA Member organizations) as well as public/open access policies can be found here.

The HRA Open collaboration includes:
• The National Library of Medicine (NLM), which enables awardees to deposit peer-reviewed publications into PubMed Central (PMC) using the NIH manuscript submission system, and
• Figshare which facilitates uploading other materials related to funded projects into Figshare, including figures, datasets, presentations, and other research outputs.

HRA is pleased to offer this opportunity to the members who have a public or open access policy that requires the deposit of funded research papers in PMC. NLM has very strict requirements for the funders with whom they partner. For instance, similar to eligibility for HRA membership, NLM requires funders who are their partners to have a robust scientific review process.

HRA Open is the platform that connects the functionality from these systems – enabling not only the upload of publications and research outputs, but also linking outputs such as datasets, figures, preprints, presentations to the related publication, and then linking those various outputs to the grant that funded the work. Thus, HRA Open fosters open policies AND helps track research outputs from your funding.

Participation Request

Want your organization to participate? Complete and submit the form below to participate in this valuable service.

Organization Name*
Exactly as it should appear in NLM’s database
Name of HRA Open Contact*
First Last
This is both HRA’s contact and the contact to whom we will refer your awardees should they contact HRA. If they are separate people, please note that.
Title of HRA Open Contact*
Email of HRA Open Contact*
Phone Number for HRA Open Contact*
Date your organization would like to begin participating in HRA Open (month/year):
Date Format: MM slash DD slash YYYY
Do you currently have a public or open access policy? Please note the URL or attach your policy, or note if/when you plan to implement a policy
Policy Upload
Beginning with what award year would you like awardees to be able to use HRA Open?
Awardee data will be exported from HRA Analyzer to HRA Open starting with the date this form is received. If past awardees are invited to use HRA Open a different process will be implemented to export their data so they may use HRA Open.
Please provide estimates to assist the NLM in planning resources for this effort:
Average # new awards your organization makes annually
Rough estimate for # manuscripts published annually related to your organization’s awards
Please give an acceptable acronym (up to 6 characters) for your organization:
Please list the format of your organization’s grant ID numbers (alpha vs. numeric, number of characters, etc.) and provide an example:
I understand that in order to participate in HRA Open my organization must send the required data for each award to HRA Analyzer as soon as possible, as exporting HRA Analyzer to HRA Open is a prerequisite of use.*
- I agree
Your Name and Title*
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