National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Mandate Becomes Law

From the “E-News for ARL Directors” for January 9, 2008:  “On December 26, President Bush signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007, which includes a provision mandating NIH-funded researchers to deposit peer-reviewed electronic manuscripts in PubMed Central for broad public access. This important shift in policy—from voluntary to mandatory deposit—signaled Congress’s strong support for increased public access to federally funded research.”

For more information: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/