Re: NIH Public Access Mandate Passes Senate

[Ray English <Ray.English@oberlin.edu>]

The language requires NIH funded researchers to deposit their 
final peer-reviewed manuscripts in PubMed Central at the time 
they are accepted for publication and for those manuscripts to 
become publicly accessible within one year of publication. Actual 
text is:

The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require 
that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted 
for them to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central an 
electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon 
acceptance for publication to be made publicly available no later 
than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, 
That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner 
consistent with copyright law.

Ray English
Director of Libraries
Oberlin College


On Oct 25, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Ann Okerson wrote:

> 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