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2019 Open Access Week: "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge"

2019 Open Access Week: "Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge"

Join the USGS Library in recognizing Open Access Week and exploring how the USGS supports this movement. Highlights today focus on Tracking the Impact...

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2019 Open Access Week: Publications Warehouse and Open Access

2019 Open Access Week: Publications Warehouse and Open Access

The USGS Publications Warehouse is the authoritative resource and public interface to USGS-authored peer-reviewed publications. Users can access...

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2019 Open Access Week: USGS Tools for Achieving Open Access

2019 Open Access Week: USGS Tools for Achieving Open Access

The USGS Science Data Management Branch (in the Core Science Systems Mission Area) offers three publicly accessible tools that support the USGS’s open...

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2019 Open Access Week: USGS Public Access Plan

2019 Open Access Week: USGS Public Access Plan

Did you know that USGS has a Public Access Plan concerning published works? This website provides an overview on how to release or publish USGS...

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2019 Open Access Week: “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge”

2019 Open Access Week: “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge”

Join the USGS Library in recognizing Open Access Week and how the USGS supports this movement.

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New Partnership to Build Public Awareness of Global Earthquake Risk

New Partnership to Build Public Awareness of Global Earthquake Risk

USGS and the Global Earthquake Model Foundation take steps to save lives worldwide

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Major Update for America’s Inventory of Parks and Other Protected Areas: Protected Areas Database of the United States

Major Update for America’s Inventory of Parks and Other Protected Areas: Protected Areas Database of the United States

A new version of the Protected Areas Database of the U.S., or PAD-US, has major federal, state and easement updates, an easier-to-use data structure...

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Major Update for America’s Inventory of Parks and Other Protected Areas: Protected Areas Database of the United States

Major Update for America’s Inventory of Parks and Other Protected Areas: Protected Areas Database of the United States

A new version of the Protected Areas Database of the U.S. (PAD-US), has major federal, state and easement updates, an easier-to-use data structure...

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GAP Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Richness Maps Released for the Conterminous U.S.

GAP Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Richness Maps Released for the Conterminous U.S.

The USGS Gap Analysis Project, part of Core Science System's Science Analytics and Synthesis, has released terrestrial vertebrate species richness...

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From Big Data to Smart Data: 2019 CDI Workshop Registration is Open

From Big Data to Smart Data: 2019 CDI Workshop Registration is Open

Registration is open for our 2019 Community for Data Integration Workshop, "From Big Data to Smart Data."

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New Species Habitat Distribution Maps Now Support Conservation Planning at a National Scale

New Species Habitat Distribution Maps Now Support Conservation Planning at a National Scale

A new dataset of habitat distribution for terrestrial vertebrate species in the conterminous United States is now available from the USGS.

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Twenty Community for Data Integration Proposals Advance to Phase 2

Twenty Community for Data Integration Proposals Advance to Phase 2

Thank you to all community members who submitted, commented on, or voted for the Statements of Interest! 

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