NIH To Enforce OA Policy (The Scientist)

- By Bob Grant

The National Institutes of Health will no longer tolerate grantees who fail to submit manuscripts reporting the results of NIH-funded research to an open-access repository, as per the agency’s 4-year-old OA policy. Starting in spring 2013, the federal science agency will delay funding grants if any of the papers tied to the research it supports is out of compliance with the policy, which states that papers resulting from NIH-funded work must be submitted to PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. Previously, the OA policy was only loosely enforced, if at all.

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