Empowering Open Science: Increasing Visibility and Access to Social Science Results

Over the last 10 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has made great strides in funding social, behavioral, and economic science (SBES) research. With this progress, comes new opportunities to increase access to this knowledge in light of the 2022 Office of Science and Technology Policy’s update on Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research. Practitioners have expressed interest in having access to social science findings and need help to integrate social science research into their day-to-day operations. To increase the visibility and accessibility of social science research, the Weather Program Office’s Social Science Program started new efforts, including the Social Science Portal for Accessing Research Knowledge (SPARK). This presentation will highlight the SPARK and more, and show how these new efforts make social science research findings more accessible, usable, and useful for both the research and practitioner communities.