[BOAI] Re: First U.S. Public Access Policy Made Permanent

[Iryna Kuchma]

And did you try the SPARC Author Addendum to secure your rights as the
author of a journal article and to modify the publisher’s agreement to keep
key rights?

With best wishes,
Iryna Kuchma
eIFL Open Access program manager
eIFL.net


2009/3/12, Allen Kleiman <allenk at panix.com>:
>
> It seems to me that this statement:
> "...Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a
>
> manner consistent with copyright law."
>
>
> Softens the whole message as copyright is assigned to the publisher; at
> least in the peer reviewed journal I publish in!
>
>
>
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> For immediate release
>   March 12, 2009
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> Contact:
> Jennifer McLennan
> jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
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> first u.s. public access policy made permanent
>
> 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act ensures NIH public access policy will
> persist
>
> Washington, D.C. – March 12, 2009 – President Obama yesterday signed into
> law the 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes a provision
> making the National Institutes’ of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy
> permanent.  The NIH Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access requires
> eligible NIH-funded researchers to deposit electronic copies of their
> peer-reviewed manuscripts into the National Library of Medicine’s online
> archive, PubMed Central (PMC). Full texts of the articles are made publicly
> available and searchable online in PMC no later than 12 months after
> publication in a journal.
>
> The NIH policy was previously implemented with a provision that was subject
> to annual renewal. Since the implementation of the revised policy the
> percentage of eligible manuscripts deposited into PMC has increased
> significantly, with over 3,000 new manuscripts being deposited each month.
> The PubMed Central database is a part of a valuable set of public database
> resources at the NIH, which are accessed by more than 2 million users each
> day.
>
> The new provision reads in full:
>
> The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require in the
> current fiscal year and thereafter that all investigators funded by the NIH
> submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine's
> PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed
> manuscripts upon acceptance for publication to be made publicly available
> no
> later than 12 months after the official date of
> publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access
> policy
> in a manner consistent with copyright law.
>
>   “This is a significant moment for all of us in the health community, and
> for efforts in health reform.  With free access to health research,
> individuals are empowered with the knowledge necessary to understand the
> health threats they and their families face,” said Sharon Terry, President
> and CEO of Genetic Alliance.   “Congress recognizes the incredible power of
> technology and innovation in enabling new solutions for the proactive
> management of health, consumer-driven healthcare, and novel partnerships
> and
> collaborations in research.  Congratulations to us all.”
>
> The NIH Public Access Policy addresses the public’s growing need for
> high-quality health information and promotes accelerated scientific
> advancement in the biomedical sciences.
>
> "Public access to publicly funded research contributes directly to the
> mission of higher education,” said David Shulenburger, Vice President for
> Academic Affairs at NASULGC (the National Association of State Universities
> and Land-Grant Colleges). “Improved access will enable universities to
> maximize their own investment in research, and widen the potential for
> discovery as the results are more readily available for others to build
> upon.”
>
> Heather Joseph, spokesperson for the Alliance for Taxpayer Access noted,
> “Thanks to the work of a wide coalition of patients, libraries,
> researchers,
> publishers, students, and taxpayers, the results of NIH-funded research can
> be accessed – and used  - in ways never before possible. The successful
> implementation of this policy will unlock the potential of this research to
> benefit the public as a whole. ”
>
> For more information, and a timeline detailing the evolution of the NIH
> Public Access Policy beginning May 2004, visit the ATA Web site at
> http://www.taxpayeraccess.org.
>
>
>
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> The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is a coalition of patient, academic,
> research, and publishing organizations that supports open public access to
> the results of federally funded research. The Alliance was formed in 2004
> to
> urge that peer-reviewed articles stemming from taxpayer-funded research
> become fully accessible and available online at no extra cost to the
> American public. Details on the ATA may be found at
> http://www.taxpayeraccess.org.
>
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