[Insight-users] IMAGINE.... Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information ( NOT-OD-04-064: Notice)

[Luis Ibanez]

  IMAGINE the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) requiring
          the results of NIH funded research to be made publicly
          available...



"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."
...

"Submission of the electronic versions of final manuscripts will be
  monitored as part of the annual grant progress review and close-out
  process."
....

"NIH considers final manuscripts to be an important record of the
  research funded by the government and 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."

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For the full version of the Notice:
<http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-064.html>

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"The NIH encourages comments concerning its intentions to enhance
  public access to NIH-funded health related research information
  as outlined in this notice. Comments on short term impacts and
  suggestions for mitigating these are especially welcome. We
  encourage that all comments be directed to the following NIH website:

      http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/public_access/add.htm.

  As an alternative, comments may be submitted by email to the
  following address: PublicAccess at nih.gov Comments must be received
  within 60 days of publication of this notice. NIH intends to publish
  an identical notice in the Federal Register."


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