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This is not quite right. The NIH does, in fact, maintain a Public Access Policy: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm
by roadnottaken 15y ago
This is not quite right. The NIH does, in fact, maintain a Public Access Policy:
http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm
which states that all NIH-funded research must be placed in this database ("PubMed Central") within 12 months of publication. I do not know how widely it is obeyed, but I know that the several labs I've been in regularly deposited their papers there.
- decode 15y agoSince the article mentions this, in what way is it not quite right? "The National Institutes of Health in the US oblige anyone taking their grants to put their papers in an open-access archive(17)."
- roadnottaken 15y agoYou're right, I mis-read this line. Still, it deserves more than a sentence. The NIH does require all NIH-funded research to be made publicly available. What more should/could they do?