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New South Building,
TO: All Faculty and Department Managers
DATE: March 7, 2008
FROM:
SUBJECT: National Institute of Health's (NIH) - New Public Access Policy
New NIH Public Access Policy
The NIH's new Public Access Policy requires that all papers resulting from NIH-funded research must be deposited in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. The Policy applies to all peer-reviewed articles (including their graphics and supplemental materials) accepted for publication on or after April 7th, 2008, arising in whole or part from direct costs paid by the NIH or NIH staff. The Policy requires that these articles be accessible to the public on PubMed Central to help advance science and improve human health, and ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research.
NIH has created a web site to explain compliance and provide instructions on submission guidelines. Submission takes about 10 minutes, but there are also many journals that do the submission to PubMed automatically.
The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit journal articles that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/). The Policy requires that these articles be accessible to the public on PubMed Central to help advance science and improve human health.
Does the Policy apply to me?
The Policy applies to you if your peer-reviewed article is based on work in one or more of the following categories:
For Submission process, policy details, and FAQ, visit: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
Copyright Protection
Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine
The Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine will help you generate a PDF form that you can attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that you retain certain rights. http://scholars.sciencecommons.org/
Each addendum gives you non-exclusive rights to create derivative works from your Article and to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your article in connection with your teaching, conference presentations, lectures, other scholarly works, and professional activities. However, they differ with respect to how soon you can make the final published version available and whether you can authorize others to re-use your work in various ways.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact my office.
Jeff Friedland
Director, ORPA
4 New South
Phone: 609-258-3090
Fax: 609-258-1159
Email: jfried@princeton.edu