NIH to Facilitate Public Access to Research Results
On 17 September, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a request for public comments on its plans to facilitate enhanced public access to information on NIH health-related research7,8. In the proposed plan, NIH-supported investigators will be expected to provide NIH with electronic copies of the final version of their manuscripts upon acceptance for publication. This would provide researchers with an alternate method to submitting copies of each publication in their annual or final progress reports. NIH will archive and make public these manuscripts in its digital repository, PubMed Central, six months after publication.
Comments can be sent to NIH via their website (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/public_access/add.htm) or by email (publicaccess@nih.gov). The deadline for comments is 16 November.
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Shalev, M. Regulation Updates. Lab Anim 33, 14 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/laban1104-14b
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