The University Libraries' Scholarly Communication Collaborative's Web page regarding the new mandate regarding NIH-funded research articles is: http://www.lib.umn.edu/scholcom/NIHaccess.phtml. Feel free to direct University-affiliated patrons to this site if they need more information regarding the mandate. According to Wayne, the page is being updated, so be sure to check it periodically for new information.
Martha
Hi all,
Today I was sent an email by a SON faculty member about the new NIH Mandate. He also sent it to Linda and Kevin Messner, so somewhere out there we're listed as being contacts for this stuff.
This faculty member sent me a list of publications that he'd like to add to PubMed Central, however only one of these may be actually covered by the mandate. He wanted to work with someone from the Libraries to determine if he could deposit these in PubMed Central -- it's good that he's thinking of us :)
After consulting with Wayne, he determined that the major question was did he still have access to the final version of the manuscript. I'm still waiting to hear from him about this issue.
While many publishers may allow post-print archiving, they generally will not allow an author to submit a PDF version of their paper for this purpose. They own this iteration of the work.
So it's time to become more aware of this issue and it probably would be a timely discussion for our next reference training or liaison groups too.
Lisa