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The
New National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy for Researchers
Beginning in May 2005, the new National Institutes of Health
(NIH) Public Access Policy requests that all NIH funded investigators
submit a copy of their final manuscript to PubMed Central -
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/.
This electronic version of the manuscript should include all
modifications from the peer review process after final acceptance
for publication. This policy does not apply to letters to the
editor, editorials or other submitted materials.
The NIH has adopted this policy as a mechanism to monitor and
archive the output of the research funded by the Institutes.
The availability of the research results will benefit the public
and health care clinicians, researchers and educators. The NIH
will provide a secure Website for the archiving of these documents.
This policy does not change the ability of an author or publisher
to assert copyright. Many publishers now are making the content
available to the public in less than the 12 months noted in
the policy.
For NIH Investigators, the submission of the final peer-reviewed
manuscript to Pub Med Central will:
- Fulfill grant progress reporting requirements. This document
will substitute for the requirement of submission of paper
copies for archives
- Support the NIH’s role in preserving and archiving research
findings
- Allow the article to be cross-indexed into other federally
funded databases
- Via the ‘open access’ to PubMed Central, bolster the access
to research findings and enhance the use and citation of the
material
For more information about the new ‘public access’ policy, go
to the National Institutes of Health/Public Access Webpage (http://www.publicaccess.nih.gov).
This site includes a document titled 'Implementation of Policy
on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting
from NIH-Funded Research' (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-045.html).
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
has an excellent guide to the Public Access Policy at http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/author.html.
June 2005
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