FSP SM Chapters
SM 502.1 - Fundamental Science Practices: Foundation Policy
SM 502.2 - Fundamental Science Practices: Planning and Conducting Data Collection and Research
SM 502.3 - Fundamental Science Practices: Peer Review
SM 502.4 - Fundamental Science Practices: Review, Approval, and Release of Information Products
SM 502.5 - Fundamental Science Practices: Safeguarding Unpublished U.S. Geological Survey Data, Information, and Associated Scientific Materials
SM 502.6 - Fundamental Science Practices: Scientific Data Management
SM 502.7 - Fundamental Science Practices: Metadata for USGS Scientific Information Products Including Data
SM 502.8 - Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release
SM 502.9 - Fundamental Science Practices: Preservation Requirements for Digital Scientific Data
SM 502.10 - Fundamental Science Practices: USGS Authorship of Scientific Information Products
FSP Advisory Council (FSPAC) Charter
SM 308.74 - USGS Fundamental Science Practices Advisory Council
SM Instructional Memoranda (IM)
Office of Science Quality and Integrity (OSQI); Core Science Systems (CSS) Mission Area
IM OSQI 2019-01 - Review and Approval of Scientific Software for Release
IM OSQI 2022-01 - Quality Management System for USGS Laboratories
IM CSS 2019-01 - USGS Scientific Working Collections Management
Delegations of Approval SM Chapter
SM 205.18 - Authority to Approve Information Products
Publishing SM Chapters
Part 1100 - Publishing
Other Related SM and DM Chapters
SM 431.1 - Records Management Roles and Responsibilities
SM 431.6 - Records Disposition
SM 432.1 - Files Management
SM 500.5 - Policy on the Release of Information to the News Media
SM 500.25 - Scientific Integrity
305 DM 3 - Integrity of Scientific and Scholarly Activities. (A separate PDF poster of the Department of the Interior (DOI) Code of Scientific and Scholarly Conduct and the supplemental DOI Scientific Integrity Procedures Handbook is available.)
470 DM 1 - Public Communications - General Policy and Procedures - Transmittal Memo 2012.
470 DM 2 - Public Communications - Digital Media Policy
Note: The links above to the Department Manual (DM) chapter topics go directly to PDFs. To search for other DM chapters in the DOI Library, go to https://www.doi.gov/elips/browse, and use the search function.
