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HLS/MLA Professional Development Grant
for Hospital and Clinical Librarians

Applications Due February 1, 2008

Are you looking for financial support to, advance your professional education, attend a meeting or conduct research?

The HLS/MLA Professional Development Grant helps librarians in hospitals and other clinical care settings to acquire knowledge and skills through educational or research activities.

Further information and an application are located at http://www.mlanet.org/pdf/grants/hls_app_20080611.pdf For any additional questions, please contact Jury Chair, Karen Roth, at Karen.Roth@bayacare.org or via phone at 727-462-7889.

The new NIH Public Access Policy became effective April 7, 2008 and calls for mandatory deposit in PubMed Central of peer-reviewed electronic manuscripts stemming from NIH funding. There are a number of resources available to help librarians respond to questions from researchers. One of the challenges is understanding the policies for specific publications. I hope these resources help.

NIH Resources

Office of Extramural Research’s Public Access Policy Web site
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/

Journals That Submit All NIH-Funded Final Published Articles to PubMed Central

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm

Other Resources

Publisher policies on NIH-funded Authors (Open Access Directory Wiki)
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Publisher_policies_on_NIH-funded_authors,

Publishers’ Policies on the NIH Public Access Policy (From the Edward G. Miner Library, University of Rochester Medical Center)
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/HSLT/Miner/research_and_publishing/PublishersPoliciesonPubMedCentralMinerLibrary.cfm