RE: Funding threshold (RE: LA Times editorial on accessing NIHresearch)

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

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?

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
rickand@unr.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Walsh [mailto:libwdw@langate.gsu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:18 AM
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu; Rick Anderson
> Subject: Funding threshold (RE: LA Times editorial on
> accessing NIHresearch)
>
> Rick,
>
> The text of H.R. 3043 is available from THOMAS.  See section 217:
>
> 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.
>
> http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:3:./temp/~c110GChpp
> k:e93504:
>
> William Walsh
> Head, Acquisitions Department
> Georgia State University Library
> Atlanta, GA 30303
> Email:  wwalsh@gsu.edu
>
>>>> On 8/1/2007 at 12:47 PM, "Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu> wrote:
>> Does the latest legislative proposal specify what level of 
>> funding would trigger the OA requirement?  Would it only apply 
>> in situations where the research was 100% funded by the NIH, 
>> or would it apply to research publications funded by that body 
>> at something less than 100%?  And if so, what is the threshold 
>> funding level?
>>
>> Rick Anderson
>> Dir. of Resource Acquisition
>> University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
>> rickand@unr.edu