Eclipse Public Access Submission System (PASS)

The Eclipse Public Access Submission System (PASS) is a platform to assist researchers in complying with the access policies of their funders and institutions. Eclipse PASS is a web-based platform that allows US researchers to simultaneously submit their Open Access manuscripts into multiple repositories, while seamlessly complying with their various access policies. 

The initial scope of PASS included simultaneous deposit of articles into PubMedCentral and JHU's institutional repository ("JScholarship") based on DSpace and packaging of related information such as articles, metadata, grants, and identifiers (DOIs and ORCIDs). We integrated PASS with JHU's grants system, Coeus, which is used by other institutions and developed dashboard capabilities that allow researchers to view status of submissions. Even with this initial scope, we designed PASS to integrate generally with other institutional and federal funder repository platforms, grants systems, and deposit or manage cited data from articles. Since the initial deployment, we have integrated PASS with the Open Access Button to make it easier for researchers to identify open access versions of their articles for submission.

PASS does so by making submission creation easier, connecting to relevant and available data from existing databases and systems (such as CrossRef, institutional grant databases, NIH’s data feed, Open Access Button API). PASS also provides and utilizes a common interface for services that would perform repository-specific deposit transactions.