New Happenings at the NIH
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EDITORIAL
New Happenings at the NIH David N. Kennedy
Published online: 6 July 2008 # Humana Press 2008
NIH Public Access Policy Effective April 7, 2008, “All final peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funds are required to be submitted to PubMed Central.” See http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ for complete details (Ascoli 2005). This can be seen as a continuation of the general open access movement that has been occurring over the past few years, that initiated with the NIH data sharing mandate in 2003, and that has oft been discussed in this journal (Ascoli et al. 2003; Gardner et al. 2003; Kennedy 2003; Kennedy 2004; Bug 2005; Kennedy 2006). Compliance with the public access policy for publications involves three steps: 1. Make sure that any copyright transfer or other publication agreements allow the final peer-reviewed manuscripts to be submitted to NIH in accordance with the Policy. 2. Submit the accepted paper to PubMed Central within 12 months. The publisher may assist with this process, or the authors may take on this transfer obligation themselves.
Recent changes are afoot at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Specific new policies affect the way publications are disseminated to the public, and sweeping changes are being considered for how research funding is awarded. D. N. Kennedy (*) Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA e-mail: [email protected] D. N. Kennedy Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
3. Cite papers by their PubMed Central reference number in all NIH applications, proposals and progress reports. Springer/Humana, the publisher of Neuroinformatics, complies fully with the new NIH mandate. The standard Copyright Transfer Statement has been adapted for new articles to ensure compliance with these guidelines. Regarding item 2, Springer/Humana offers the ‘Open Choice’ publication option that will facilitate the transfer of material from the publisher to PubMed Central. The fees for this option are allowable expenses that can be included in grant budgets. Alternately, the author can personally perform the transfer of information if the Open Choice option is not selected. Information regarding Springer’s “NIH compliance/ Author self-archiving policy” can be found at http://www. springer.com/authors/journal+contributors?SGWID=0154202-12-467999-0. When utilizing this method, authors should be aware that the publisher requires adherence to the following stipulations: the self-archived version may not be made publicly available until after 12 months of official publication; it may not be the publisher's PDF version; and the author may only post his/her version provided acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is inserted to the published article on Springer's website; the link must be accompanied by the following text: “The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com”. A number of Neuroinformatics articles are currently available in PubMed Central (Buscema et al. 2004; Schiff 2005). A publ
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