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Saturday, April 04, 2009

Updates to the pages on the NIH policy

From the NLM Technical Bulletin for March 27, 2009:

NIH awardees have been notified that the NIH Public Access Policy is permanent, per the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts. The NIH Pubic Access Policy Web site was updated to reflect this. Additional updates to the Web site based on this information include:

  • The Public Access FAQ B1, "To what papers does the NIH Public Access Policy apply?" has been updated.
  • The training slides have been updated accordingly. These slides are intended to be downloaded and modified to support institutional efforts to train authors and comply with the Policy.
  • Anyone submitting an application, proposal or progress report to the NIH must include the PubMed Central® or NIH Manuscript Submission reference number when citing applicable articles that arise from their NIH-funded research. Instructions on citing papers have been consolidated into a Web page.

PS:  The answer to FAQ B1 formerly said that the policy applies to any grant in "Fiscal Year 2008" and now says "Fiscal Year 2008 or beyond".