[Insight-users] IMAGINE...

[Luis Ibanez]

The U.S. Appropriations Committee within the House of Representatives
recommended that from 2005 the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
provide free public access via PubMed Central to the

   *final text* of accepted articles *reporting NIH-funded research*

at most six months after publication.


Furthermore,


    if( *any* NIH funds were used to pay
        *any* costs associated with publication )
    then
      {
      access would have to be immediate;
      }


If passed by both houses of Congress, the NIH would be required
to indicate by December 1, 2004 how it would implement the policy.



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