[OWW-SC] NIH open access policy

[Tom Knight]

NIH Adds Details to New Public Access PubMed Policy

By a GenomeWeb staff reporter

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The National Institutes of Health has 
fleshed out the details of its newly adopted open access policy, which 
mandates that all NIH-funded investigators must submit an electronic 
version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central 
within 12 months after official publication, through a policy statement 
and a FAQ page on the NIH’s Public Access website.
 
The mandate, which became law through the end-of-year passage of the 
omnibus spending bill that also funded the NIH for 2008, will apply to 
articles from investigators funded in whole or in part by the NIH, and 
if NIH pays the investigator’s salary. The submissions will include all 
graphics and supplemental materials.
 
NIH will help pay for publication in open access journals through its 
grant funding, so long as the author’s agreement with the journal is in 
accordance with the NIH’s open access policy.
 
The rule will take effect for investigators funded under an NIH grant 
cooperative agreement in fiscal year 2008, or those funded under NIH 
contracts signed on or after April 7, and will cover those applications 
submitted to the NIH by this year’s May 25 due date.
 
Investigators in future applications must include the PubMed Central 
reference number when they cite their own NIH-funded articles.
 
Investigators publishing in journals that already submit their articles 
to PubMed do not need to submit their articles separately.
 
NIH estimates that its funding backs the research behind as many as 
80,000 articles each year.
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