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Public access to publications from NIH-funded research (February 15, 2005)
The NIH is now requesting publication in
PubMed Central of research publications that is supported in whole or in part by NIH
grants. The authors can designate a time delay between the appearance of the publication in
the journal itself and when the PubMed Central article is available. This delay should be as
short as possible but can be up to twelve months if necessary. This acknowledges the economic
needs of paper journals to recoup some of their costs of publication through subscriptions
while still making available a comprehensive archive of NIH-funded research for health care
providers, educators, and the public.
I've written about journals that make the full free
text available on the web, which makes my job as a web author so much easier. This NIH
policy will also help me find and include good relevant teaching example of real research.
Further reading:
2008-07-14. Category: Writing research
papers
