[sc-announce] White paper released to help universities comply with NIH’s Public Access policy - Science Commons blog
Kaitlin Thaney
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
Fri Feb 29 18:02:46 EST 2008
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/02/29/white-paper-complying-with-nih-mandate/
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White paper released to help universities comply with NIH's Public Access
policy
*February 29th, 2008 by Kaitlin Thaney
Come April 7, NIH-funded researchers will be mandated to archive their work
in PubMed Central <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/> no later than 12
months post-publication. To help universities prepare for this, Science
Commons <http://sciencecommons.org>, SPARC <http://www.arl.org/sparc/> and
ARL <http://www.arl.org> have jointly released a white paper
<http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm%7Edoc/NIH_Copyright_v1.pdf>that explores the
copyright-related issues involved with the new NIH Public Access Policy. The
paper, "Complying with the National Institutes of Health Public Access
Policy: Copyright Considerations and
Options"<http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm%7Edoc/NIH_Copyright_v1.pdf>,
arms university provosts, researchers, and administrators with the
information needed to fully comply with the mandate, announced this past
January.
>From SPARC's press release <http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/08-0229.html>:
"[S]aid Heather Joseph, executive director of SPARC: 'The sooner we can get
effective implementing mechanisms in place, the sooner researchers,
institutions, and the public can put PubMed Central to work. With April
implementation drawing near, this paper will be a great tool to help
administrators jumpstart the local planning process.'
[…] 'Congress and the NIH recognize that the Internet makes a difference,'
said John Wilbanks, Vice President of Science Commons. 'Faculty authors can
no longer sign away their copyrights in a business-as-usual manner when
doing so means that their work will never be openly accessible over the
Internet. This white paper is a step in making sure authors and universities
understand how to move forward with a solid legal footing.'"
The press release <http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/08-0229.html> and the white
paper <http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm%7Edoc/NIH_Copyright_v1.pdf> can be
accessed in their entirety on SPARC's Web site, as well as in the Science
Commons Reading Room <http://sciencecommons.org/resources/readingroom/>.
Many thanks to Michael Carroll for authoring this wonderful resource.
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Kaitlin Thaney
Project Manager
Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
http://creativecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
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