NIH requires open access for its funded medical research

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(2005), "NIH requires open access for its funded medical research", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 33 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2005.12233aab.003

NIH requires open access for its funded medical research

By Barbara QuintIt is the sort of initiative below that will really boost the development of Open Access.

After months – if not years, seen from a historical perspective – of dispute, the National Institutes of Health has established a policy mandating open access to the full text of research results from projects it funds. Current estimates place the number of documents affected by the new policy as around 60,000 items each year. Before coming to this decision, the NIH heard from all the many stakeholders – publishers, abstracting and indexing services, authors, disease-specific advocacy groups, librarians, etc. The final push came from the prodding of the sub-committee of the House Committee on Appropriations that controls NIH’s budget. With the posting of the notice on 3 September, a 60-day period began for public comment. Revisions may ensue at the end of that period, but the policy should go into effect before the end of the year. All the material will end up deposited at PubMed Central, administered by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which ranks as an NIH institute.

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