[GOAL] Re: Open Access Mandates: Q&A with the NIH

Sat May 19 17:32:05 BST 2012

The FWF (Austrian Science Fund) has been joined UKPMC in April 2010 and reached in November 2011 a  compliance rate of around 65%. One major reason seems to be that we are able to pay publication costs three years after the project is finished, see: http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/projects/peer-reviewed_publications.html

Am 19.05.2012 um 18:09 schrieb "Richard Poynder" <ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk<mailto:ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk>>:

Why is the NIH proving more successful in achieving compliance with its open access policy than the Wellcome Trust (which currently has a compliance rate of 55%).

- The initial NIH voluntary policy saw compliance rates of 19%.

-The mandatory policy (introduced in April 2008) saw compliance grow to 49% by the end of 2008, 70% by the end of 2009 and currently stands at 75%.

-In order to increase compliance the NIH has a) engaged in awareness programs; b) improved its ability to track papers resulting from NIH research awards; c) developed new systems to assist sponsored research offices at universities and medical research centres in tracking their compliance; d) improved the submission process for authors by i) co-opting publishers to deposit for authors and ii) introducing the NIH Manuscript Submission System<http://www.nihms.nih.gov/>.

One noteworthy point is that, while the NIH clearly takes a close interest in compliance levels, it does not collect statistics on enforcement actions. With the growth in compliance now apparently levelling off at NIH, this would surely be useful information — and not just for NIH itself, but also for other funders like the Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK  (RCUK<http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/Pages/Home.aspx>), both of whom are currently looking to beef up<http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_7297/new-stronger-uk-research-councils-policy-on-open-access> their open access policies.

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/open-access-mandates-ensuring.html

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