On August 18, 2015 the Smithsonian Institution released its Plan for Increased Public Access to Results of Federally Funded Research which proposes "to provide increased public access to certain peer-reviewed scholarly publications and supporting digital research data" for research partially or wholly funded by a federal funding source. The plan applies to "all fields in which the Smithsonian conducts research, including but not limited to the fields of science, history, art, and culture."
