RE: Funding threshold (RE: LA Times editorial on accessing NIH research)

["William Walsh" <libwdw@langate.gsu.edu>]

The current policy states:

"NIH anticipates that investigators, or their designees, will 
submit an electronic version of the author's final manuscript 
upon acceptance for publication, resulting from research 
supported, in whole or in part, with direct costs from NIH. "

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/publicaccess_manual.htm

So I think your strict reading of the text is correct.

William Walsh
Head, Acquisitions Department
Georgia State University Library
Atlanta, GA 30303
Email:  wwalsh@gsu.edu


>>> On 8/1/2007 at 2:46 PM, "Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu> wrote:
> Right.  So I guess the answer to my question is "no" -- the 
> proposal does not specify a threshold funding level.  A strict 
> reading of this measure would lead one to expect, then, that 
> any support at all from NIH would trigger the OA requirement -- 
> even if NIH funds were a very small part of the total funding 
> package for a given piece of research.
>
> Do others read it differently?
>
> ---
> Rick Anderson
> Dir. of Resource Acquisition
> University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
> (775) 682-5664
> rickand@unr.edu