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NIH Public Access Policy
Highlights
A new Public Access Policy from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) requests grant recipients deposit copies of their final manuscripts in PubMed Central beginning May 2, 2005. We strongly encourage UIC researchers with NIH grants to comply with this request.
The NIH has established this policy to monitor and archive the output of the research it funds. More importantly, NIH understands that the return on its investment is greatly enhanced by the ready availability of research results to health care providers, educators, scientists and the public in a single, permanent, open-access archive. The current commercial publishing system does not support this broad availability. In fact, this system often disenfranchises researchers and practitioners who are not affiliated with major research institutions that can afford to subscribe to a broad range of increasingly expensive scientific journals.
UIC receives extensive NIH funding for research: in FY2003, UIC received $132.1 million dollars in NIH funding, and, for 2005, NIH lists 487 UIC Principal Investigators on NIH grants. It is important to UIC and its individual researchers that the results of research are visible, valued, and used. We believe that depositing your work in PubMed Central as soon as possible after publication is an important step in achieving this goal.
To answer questions that faculty may have about the new NIH policy, the Library has created a website and discussion list where information will be posted and concerns addressed. Details are included in the attached announcement developed by the Library’s Scholarly Communication Task Force. In addition, once procedures are established by NIH, the Library intends to set up a service to provide support to interested Principal Investigators in depositing their works.
We hope you will take the time to review the information below and explore how you can make your research more widely available when you publish your next paper.
UIC Library Helps Researchers comply with the new NIH Public Access Policy
The new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy goes into effect on May 2, 2005. The new Policy requests that all NIH-funded investigators submit to PubMed Central an electronic version of the author's final manuscript upon acceptance for publication, including all modifications from the peer-review process. This policy will enable the NIH to monitor and archive the output of research funded by NIH, and also to ensure the availability of research results for the benefit of the public, health care providers, educators and scientists in a single, permanent, open-access archive.
In a letter to faculty issued on April 26, the Provost, Vice Chancellor for Research, and the University Librarian strongly encouraged NIH grant recipients to comply with the new NIH policy.
The policy applies to peer-reviewed original research publications that have been supported, in-whole or in-part, with direct costs from NIH, but does not apply to book chapters, editorials, letters to the editor, reviews, or conference proceedings. This policy does not change the ability of either the author or the publisher to assert copyright. NIH will provide a secure website within PubMed Central for depositing manuscripts; however, the submission system is currently still in development.
The UIC Library will serve as a resource for finding answers to questions
and concerns as the implementation of the NIH Public Access Policy is realized.
A new UIC Library Web site on scholarly publishing and open access, http://scholarlypub.lib.uic.edu,
is under development. It currently includes links to relevant NIH documents.
As further information is released, it will be added to the website, including:
• Instructions about how to submit manuscripts to PubMed Central
• Links to any publisher statements regarding copyright issues and compliance
with the NIH policy
• Further statements by NIH regarding the policy
The Library has also set up a listserv for faculty to submit questions about the process. If you have questions about the process that are not answered on the Web site, please send an e-mail to the listserv: scholarlypub@uic.edu.
The NIH policy can be found at http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm
Read this announcement online: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/news/archive/2005/feature0009.shtml
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