RE: NIH Public Access Mandate Passes Senate

[Kevin L Smith <kevin.l.smith@duke.edu>]

The language of the section in the appropriations bill is that 
investigators must submit to PubMed Central "an electronic 
version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscript upon acceptance 
for publication." So I think it is closest to option 2 below -- 
it is to be the final version as published, which is not quite 
the same thing as a copy of the published article, but it should 
be the identical content.

As for the likelihood of a veto, I have seen an administration 
report on the whole appropriations bill that disapproves of the 
section 217 provision, saying that the voluntary system should be 
given more time to work and that NIH and publishers should 
continue private negotiations, but I think the veto threat is 
over the much larger issue of the level of spending. 
Personally, I doubt the President would veto an otherwise 
acceptable bill because of this provision.  It remains to be seen 
if he will veto the bill on grounds similar to the SCHIP veto, 
with the prospect of defunding whole government agencies 
beginning to loom.

Kevin L. Smith, J.D.
Scholarly Communications Officer
Perkins Library, Duke University
PO Box 90193
Durham, NC  27708
919-668-4451
kevin.l.smith@duke.edu
http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/

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"Ann Okerson" <aokerson@gmail.com>
Sent by: owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
10/25/2007 10:10 PM
Subject RE: NIH Public Access Mandate Passes Senate

I hope this question isn't too naive -- but is the requirement 
that

(1) authors should submit reports of their NIH-funded research to 
PMC and these can be in a form of their choosing, such as working 
reports for their or others' Web sites; OR that

(2) authors should submit reports of their NIH-funded research to 
PMC and these must be in the form of articles that are heading 
for publication in a medical journal; OR THAT

(3) these reports must be copies of articles that have been 
published in peer reviewed journals?

Do authors have flexiblity in what can be submitted?

Thank you,

Ann Okerson/Yale Library