[FC-discuss] Fwd: [fc-d] NIH open access signed into law

[Elizabeth Stark]

Thought you guys should know about this...


"President Bush has signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of
2007 (H.R. 2764),<http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/congress_spends_4_28_per_family_on_clean_energy_9_335_on_everything_else>which
includes a provision directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
to provide the public with open online access to findings from its funded
research. This is the first time the U.S. government has mandated public
access to research funded by a major agency.

The provision directs the NIH to change its existing Public Access Policy,
implemented as a voluntary measure in 2005, so that participation is
required for agency-funded investigators. Researchers will now be required
to deposit electronic copies of their peer-reviewed manuscripts into the
National Library of Medicine's online archive, PubMed Central. Full texts of
the articles will be publicly available and searchable online in PubMed
Central no later than 12 months after publication in a journal."


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ivan Krstić <krstic at hcs.harvard.edu>
Date: Dec 27, 2007 7:59 PM
Subject: [fc-d] NIH open access signed into law
To: Freeculture List <freeculture-discuss at hcs.harvard.edu>


A fantastic present for the holidays:
<http://www.sciencecodex.com/public_access_mandate_made_law>

--
Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org

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