New Requirements for Public Access
to NIH-supported Research: On 12/26/07,
The Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764) requiring NIH to make public
the results of any research it supports was signed. NIH released guidance on
the
Revised
Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from
NIH-Funded Research (NOT-OD-08-033), which stipulates,
effective April 7, 2008, that
investigators funded by the NIH are
required to submit to
PubMed Central (PMC),
upon
acceptance for publication, an electronic version of their final,
peer-reviewed manuscripts,
to be made publicly available no laterstrong
than 12 months after the official date of publication.