RE: NIH Public Access Mandate Passes Senate

["Ann Okerson" <aokerson@gmail.com>]

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


> Alliance for Taxpayer Access
> www.taxpayeraccess.org
>
> For immediate release
> October 24, 2007
>
> MANDATE FOR PUBLIC ACCESS TO NIH-FUNDED RESEARCH POISED TO BECOME
> LAW
>
> Full U.S. Senate Approves Bill Containing Support for Access To
> Taxpayer-Funded Research
>
> Washington, D.C. -- October 24, 2007 - The U.S. Senate last 
> night approved the FY2008 Labor, HHS, and Education 
> Appropriations Bill (S.1710), including a provision that 
> directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen 
> its Public Access Policy by requiring rather than requesting 
> participation by researchers. The bill will now be reconciled 
> with the House Appropriations Bill, which contains a similar 
> provision, in another step toward support for public access to 
> publicly funded research becoming United States law.

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