Public Library of NASA Research

[Streetwind]

As a civilian government agency, NASA has always been required to be fairly public and transparent about everything it does. (Moreso than the military, at least.)

But now they've implemented a new policy that takes things even further. Every* NASA-funded, peer reviewed research paper that is at least one year old (and some younger than that) is now available in a publicly accessible database. This archive previously existed, but was behind a paywall... no longer, though. Now there's no signup, no fees, and a complete fulltext search. Something to bookmark for use when you need to find a credible source for something space-related, perhaps  

An article: http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-just-made-all-the-scientific-research-it-funds-available-for-free

The database itself: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/funder/nasa/

*) Disclaimer: "Patents and material governed by personal privacy, proprietary, or security laws are exempt from having to be included in PubSpace." Also, this is about NASA-funded research by independent science teams, and not internal NASA programs, so you won't find a breakdown of the NERVA program or anything like that. On the other hand, the database also includes non-NASA papers (since NASA is merely joining this already-existing database), which you can include in the search by removing the "nasa-funded" search tag that's appended to every query when you come in through the portal website linked above. Just, you know, in case that helps at some point.

[Wallygator]

Wonderful... just wonderful!  Bookmarked!