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

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

Except that in the case of H.R. 3043, I think what matters is 
what the law itself actually eventually says -- not what the 
relatively toothless current NIH policy now says.

In other words, I'm not sure that we can use the current NIH 
policy to guide us in our reading of the law itself.  The law 
will say what it says, regardless of what NIH asks of authors 
now.

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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 12:10 PM
> To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu; Rick Anderson
> Subject: RE: Funding threshold (RE: LA Times editorial on
> accessing NIHresearch)
>
> 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