The LJ Academic Newswire
December 20, 2007
Success! NIH Provision Remains Intact
Librarians today are set to ring in the New Year with the
nation's first ever public access mandate. Both the House of
Representatives and Senate this week approved the revised
Labor
Health and Human Services (LHHS) appropriations bill which
leaves
intact a directive for the National Institutes of Health
(NIH)
requiring investigators to deposit their final papers in
PubMed
Central. Papers will then be available within a year after
publication. All that's left is the president's signature,
which
is expected, and could come this week. The approval caps a
several years-long fight spearheaded by SPARC, to make
public
access a requirement for NIH grantees.
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