Dear Colleague,
Journal publishers are crying foul, but budget-squeezed university researchers and librarians are pleased that the public will soon have free access to the published results of taxpayer-funded biomedical research. Included in a repackaged spending bill passed by Congress and signed by President Bush in December, the Public Access Policy mandates that federally funded investigators with accepted, peer-reviewed manuscripts in scientific journals be required to submit an electronic copy of the paper to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Within 1 year after publication, the NIH will post the article at PubMed Central, the agency's online digital archive.
Since 2005, the NIH has encouraged--but not required--grantees to submit their final paper for public access, but only 12% of authors have done so. On average, NIH funding results in 65,000 peer-reviewed journal articles every year. The Association of American Publishers lobbied against the mandate, citing intellectual property rights infringement, and will likely fight to have a say in how the law will be implemented.
Guidelines and FAQs for the new requirement can be found at http://publicaccess.nih.gov/index.htm.
Sincerely,
Stephen J. Bartels, MD, MS; Martha L. Bruce, PhD, MPH; Maureen Halpain, MS; Barry D. Lebowitz, PhD;
Charles F. Reynolds III, MD; Gwenn Smith, PhD; Joel E. Streim, MD; Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA
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