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Re: NIH Public Access Mandate Passes Senate



The language requires NIH funded researchers to deposit their final peer-reviewed manuscripts in PubMed Central at the time they are accepted for publication and for those manuscripts to become publicly accessible within one year of publication. Actual text is:

The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.

Ray English
Director of Libraries
Oberlin College


On Oct 25, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Ann Okerson wrote:

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