Endhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information: Public Comments Sought
The NIH encourages public comments concerning its intentions to enhance public access to NIH-funded health related research information as outlined in a notice posted September 3rd, 2004. The NIH encourages all comments to be directed to the following NIH website: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/public_access/add.htm. “NIH intends to request that its grantees and supported Principal Investigators provide the NIH with electronic copies of all final version manuscripts upon acceptance for publication if the research was supported in whole or in part by NIH funding. This would include all research grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, as well as National Research Service Award (NRSA) fellowships… NIH … will archive these manuscripts and any appropriate supplementary information in PubMed Central (PMC), NIH’s digital repository for biomedical research. Six months after an NIH-supported research study’s publication—or sooner if the publisher agrees—the manuscript will be made available freely to the public through PMC. If the publisher requests, the author’s final version of the publication will be replaced in the PMC archive by the final publisher’s copy with an appropriate link to the publisher’s electronic database.”
[Notice: Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information, Notice Number: NOT-OD-04-064, Released: Sept. 3, 2004. < http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-064.html>
