The National Institutes of Health wants to hear from you about its draft proposal to change its funding rules.
The proposed new rule would require the published results of any research funded by NIH to be made available to taxpayers on an open access basis, no later than 6 months after commercial publication. NIH proposes to use its own PubMed Central service as a repository for such open access publication.
Specifically:
“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. We define final manuscript as the author's version resulting after all modifications due to the peer review process. Submission of the final manuscript will provide NIH supported investigators with an alternate means by which they will meet and fulfill the requirement of the provision of one copy of each publication in the annual or final progress reports. Submission of the electronic versions of final manuscripts will be monitored as part of the annual grant progress review and close-out process.”
Clearly, this has the potential to reshape the publication process, and NIH expects a lively debate on the merits of the rule.
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