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NIH Research To Be Made Free Online
In accordance with a new spending bill signed by President Bush last week, all future published research that is funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), will be made freely available online. Any NIH research which has been published in a scientific journal, according to this law, must be published and made free to the public online within 12 months. It seems that PubMed may provide access to much of this new research.
“The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.”
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