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NIH moves towards open access

Washington, DC Bob Roehr

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has taken the first step to requiring that all published papers that are based on research it supports financially will be made freely available to the public.

Notice of the regulatory changes was published on 3 September, opening a 60 day period for public comment. The process is likely to be concluded and to take effect early next year.

The NIH intends to request that wherever research is supported in whole or in part by NIH funding it should be provided with electronic copies of all final versions of manuscripts on their acceptance for publication (after peer review and revisions), including those of international investigators. The submitted manuscript and supplemental information will be deposited in PubMed Central, the NIH’s online biomedical repository. Six months after publication—or sooner if the publisher agrees—the manuscript will be made available freely to the . . . [Full text of this article]

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