Attachment 1 - Statement of Work.pdf

ATTACHMENT 1

Statement of Work

CSIRO Access to electronic journals and Read and Publish Agreement

I. Background Information

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Agricultural Library (NAL) requires perpetual electronic access for all USDA users and public on-site users to scientific journals published by CSIRO Publishing.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Agricultural Library (NAL) also requires a "Read and Publish" service for all USDA employees. This service will provide unlimited publishing of USDA articles in journals published by CSIRO for a set annual fee and without incurring Article Publishing Charges (APCs.)

II. Requirements

1. Journal subscriptions

a. The contractor shall provide electronic access via the Internet to CSIRO journals for use by all USDA employees, authorized public on-site users, and employees of other federal agencies that are authorized by the publisher to use NAL’s DigiTop service. All USDA locations worldwide are to be considered authorized premises.

USDA employees and contractors, cooperators and volunteers working on behalf of USDA and acting within the scope of their relationship with USDA, as well as employees, contractors, cooperators and volunteers working on behalf of other federal agencies that are authorized by the publisher to use NAL’s DigiTop service, are considered authorized users of the journals. In addition to internal use, authorized users have the right to use content of the journals for ordinary business, scholarly and educational purposes of the Government, including but not limited to viewing, printing, saving, reusing and disseminating content.

b. The contractor shall make the CSIRO journals accessible 24 hours per day.

Authorized users shall be granted access to the CSIRO journals through a mutually agreeable authentication process without any impediments.

c. The contractor shall provide the CSIRO journals in accordance with the following terms and conditions: The authorized users shall have the right to use content during the term of the subscription. The contractor shall grant perpetual data rights to the subscribed-to content. Upon request by NAL the contractor shall provide the subscribed-to or purchased content in the mutually agreed-uponelectronic medium and format. The right to perpetual use of the subscribed-to journal content will survive the termination of the contract for any reason.

d. The contractor shall provide current COUNTER-compliant usage statistics for all subscribed journals on a monthly basis.

e. The CSIRO journals to be included are:

ISSN

Online

ISSN-L Title

1836-5787 1836-0939 Animal Production Science 1444-9862 0067-1924 Australian Journal of Botany 1446-568X 0004-9573 Australian journal of soil research 1836-5795 1836-0947 Crop and Pasture Science 1445-4416 1445-4408 Functional Plant Biology 1448-5516 1049-8001 International Journal of Wildland Fire 1834-7541 1036-9872 Rangeland Journal 1448-5990 1031-3613 Reproduction Fertility and

Development 1448-5494 1035-3712 Wildlife Research

2. Read and Publish

a. The contractor shall implement workflows that offer open access publication in the CSIRO

Publishing Journals to United States Department of Agriculture Corresponding Authors.

b. The contractor shall publish an unlimited number of USDA-authored articles without charging a separate APC during the Term for the publication of Accepted Articles in a CSIRO Publishing Journal.

c. The contractor will provide the Institution with online early and/or post publication PDF of each article published

d. The contractor shall provide written instructions, suitable for accessing electronically, for authors of USDA articles to utilize the Read and Publish service for publishing their work in CSIRO journals without payment of a separate Article Publishing Charge.

The contractor shall provide a monthly report in Excel format listing

1. the articles submitted under this agreement during the month, listing each article title, journal title and ISSN, and USDA author (s) an

2. the articles published under this agreement each month, listing the article title, journal title and ISSN, and USDA author (s) during the month.

III. Period of Performance

Base Period: 07/01/2024 – 06/30/2025 Option Period 1: 07/01/2025 – 06/30/2026 Option Period 2: 07/01/2026 – 06/30/2027 Option Period 3: 07/01/2027 – 06/30/2028 Option Period 4: 07/01/2028 – 06/30/2029

IV. Schedule of Deliverables

Deliverable Due Date Task 1. Access via the internet to specified CSIRO journals published during the period of performance Within 10 days of award

Task 2.

a. Provide COUNTER-compliant usage statistics for all specified journals.

b. Usage statistics shall include the (IP) address of every user and their respective use CSIRO Press journals, if available.

a. Monthly

b. Annually

Deliverable-Read and Publish Requirement Due Date Task 1. Provide written instructions, suitable for accessing electronically, for authors of USDA articles to utilize the Read and Publish service for publishing their work in CSIRO journals without payment of a separate Article Publishing Charge.

Within 5 days of Award

Task 2. Provide a monthly report in Excel format listing

(1) the articles submitted under this agreement during the month, listing each article title, journal title and ISSN, and USDA author (s) and

(2) the articles published under this agreement each month, listing the article title, journal title and ISSN, and USDA author (s) during the month.

Monthly