RE: NIH Public Access Mandate Passes Senate

["T Scott Plutchak" <tscott@uab.edu>]

The deposit would be of the "author's final manuscript" of a 
paper that has been accepted for publication.  In essence, this 
language authorizes NIH to make the current voluntary policy a 
mandatory one.  Details of the current policy are here: 
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/.  In general, "author's final 
manuscript" is understood to be the author's version of the paper 
that has been accepted, with all of the corrections/changes 
necessitated by peer review, but not necessarily with any 
copy-editing changes.

As to the liklihood of the president signing this bill (Rick's 
question), my guess (and it's all just a matter of guessing at 
the moment) is that the odds right now are slim.  We'll see if 
the conference committee can put together a bill that satisfies 
the White House, but I'm not particularly optimistic. (There's 
also a slim chance that the NIH provision could be yanked out 
during conference, although that appears to be pretty unlikely).

Scott

T. Scott Plutchak

Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
tscott@uab.edu


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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Ann Okerson
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:11 PM
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Subject: RE: NIH Public Access Mandate Passes Senate

I hope this question isn't too naive -- but is the requirement that

(1) authors should submit reports of their NIH-funded research to PMC
and these can be in a form of their choosing, such as working reports
for their or others' Web sites; OR that

(2) authors should submit reports of their NIH-funded research to PMC
and these must be in the form of articles that are heading for
publication in a medical journal; OR THAT

(3) these reports must be copies of articles that have been published in
peer reviewed journals?

Do authors have flexiblity in what can be submitted?

Thank you,

Ann Okerson/Yale Library