Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS)

The FAIROS Program seeks to support a broad range of transformative open science activities including research, education, and socio-technical cyberinfrastructure development capacities that advance sustainable multi-disciplinary findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable (FAIR) research data management (RDM) and open science capabilities. The program supports piloting new models of scientific communication and publication that improve efficiency and accessibility, developing FAIROS data portals, research data commons, RDM as a national service, and lowering barriers to accessing, curating, integrating, linking, managing, sharing, and storing data across many disciplinary domains. The program supports innovation across the cyberinfrastructure ecosystem to address accessibility, data curation, research data management, discoverability, reliability, reproducibility, preservation, sustainability, and utility of research products. FAIROS proposals must select one of two tracks: Disciplinary Improvements to targeted scientific communities, or Cross-Cutting Improvements that apply to many or most scientific disciplines.