Re: NIH mandate set to become law
Wade KOTTER
>>> Ray English <Ray.E...@oberlin.edu> 12/21/07 7:21 AM >>>
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.