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"Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research"
Please read this important information on the NIH Public Access Policy that takes effect on April 7th, 2008
The reporting requirements for federally-funded researchers will soon change substantially, as a result of a new law aimed at providing greater access to taxpayer-funded research. Investigators funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will soon need to submit their final peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s online archive of biomedical literature. The new reporting requirements apply to articles that arise from direct costs funded by NIH and are accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008.
The new law, which Congress passed as part of the fiscal year 2008 appropriations process, calls for full text of articles to be made freely available to the public no later than 12 months after publication. Beginning May 25, 2008, all applications, proposals and progress reports to the NIH must include PubMed Central or NIH Manuscript Submission reference numbers when citing applicable articles accepted for publication on or after April 7. The new law replaces NIH’s initial voluntary policy—enacted in May 2005—under which researchers were encouraged to make the results of their funded research publicly available.
More Information
To get the full details about the NIH Public Access Policy, please go to http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
View the Columbia University Libraries NIH Public Access Policy.
To read more about the new policy, including some of its benefits according to the Association of Research Libraries, please see http://www.arl.org/sc/implement/nih/guide/index.shtml
To learn more about PubMed Central - a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM)- please see http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
For local assistance, please see the Columbia University Libraries Scholarly Communication Program website at http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/nih-public-access-policy/ or contact Konstantina Matsoukas (km2056@columbia.edu) at CUMC’s Health Sciences Library (http://library.cpmc.columbia.edu/hsl/ or hs-library@columbia.edu or tel. 212-305-1411).
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