From PLoS:
“The US government has now endorsed the principle that the results of federally funded research should be freely available to the public,” said Michael B. Eisner, Ph.D., co-founder of PLoS. “Scientists and the scientific community now have an historic opportunity to make this principle a reality.”
Yesterday the U.S. National Institutes of Health announced its new Public Access Policy, requesting that NIH funded authors deposit their published research articles in the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central, making them freely available online as soon as possible after publication (but within 12 months). You can view the full press release and other information about the policy at: http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm.
Because you are a supporter of open access and an Institutional Member, we wanted to send you our most recent position on the NIH announcement and encourage all of our members to inform themselves and faculty members about this policy. You can read our press release here: http://www.plos.org/news/announce_nihpapolicy.html.
We also hope that you will encourage faculty and authors at your institution to comply with this policy by requesting that their papers be made available in PubMedCentral immediately upon publication. We will keep you informed and share our ideas and resources on this policy, and hope you will let us know if you have any questions or ideas about how its successful implementation can be achieved.
Donna Okubo
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