Washington, D.C. - December 26, 2007 - President Bush has signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764), which includes a provision directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide the public with open online access to findings from its funded research. This is the first time the U.S. government has mandated public access to research funded by a major agency.
(See the full-media release from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access and its status and time-line reports in the development of the Federal Research Public Access Act).
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) directive will require investigators/NIH grant recipients to deposit their final papers in PubMed Central. Papers will then be available within a year after appearing in a published journal.
More information as it becomes available.
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