Oxford Journals now deposits NIH-funded articles into PubMed Central

["LUFF, Kirsty" <kirsty.luff@oxfordjournals.org>]

Dear list members

We thought you may be interested in the following press release 
which we issued today (Monday 4th August 2008).

Kind regards
Kirsty Luff


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Oxford, UK, Monday 4 August, 2008

Oxford Journals today announced that they will deposit into 
PubMed Central (PMC) any articles published in any of their 
biomedical journals which are identified by the authors as being 
funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This 
development helps authors to comply with the public access 
policies of the NIH.

The NIH policy (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/) 'requires 
investigators funded by the NIH to submit to PMC an electronic 
version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscript upon acceptance 
for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 
months after the official date of publication.'

Any NIH-funded manuscripts submitted to Oxford Journals from 31st 
July 2008 onwards will be identified and tagged, and the final 
published version will then be sent to PMC for them to include on 
their platform. NIH-funded articles which are open access will be 
available immediately, and those which are not open access will 
be available after 12 months. To clarify, in both cases, the 
final published version of the NIH funded article will be hosted 
at PMC, rather than the original manuscript. Data feeds between 
PMC and the journals concerned have already been set up, and now 
Oxford Journals will work with our authors to identify which 
articles are funded by the NIH.

Martin Richardson, Managing Director of Oxford Journals, 
comments, 'already all of our open access articles are being 
deposited into PMC. Now any NIH-funded authors who publish their 
articles in one of our journals will not need to deposit them 
into PMC themselves - Oxford Journals will do so for no charge on 
their behalf.'

Oxford Journals has also prepared some information and guidelines 
for authors of various funding agencies, which can be found here: 
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/for_authors/repositories.html

For more information, please contact:

Kirsty Luff
Senior Communications and Marketing Manager, Oxford Journals
kirsty.luff@oxfordjournals.org
+44 (0)1865 354206

NOTES TO EDITORS

Through the Oxford Open initiative, authors of accepted papers 
have the option of paying an open access publication charge to 
make their paper freely available online immediately. If an 
author does not choose to pay the open access publication charge, 
their paper will be published in the normal manner, but it will 
not be made freely available online immediately. Read more about 
Oxford Open by visiting http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen

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