Public input benefits NIH

Biosecurity benefits public health.

The NIH policy on enhancing public access to publications resulting from NIH-funded research

On February 3, 2005, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its policy on “enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from NIH-funded research.” Through this policy, the NIH requests that publications resulting from NIH-funded research be deposited by the authors in an archive at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Authors can elect to have their publications rele...

Cooperative Production of Public Input

A movement has ignited amongst government agencies to extend their efforts for obtaining wide input on contentious public issues. These projects face challenges related to scale and political capture. But new sociotechnical approaches that leverage nascent structures of distributed work and interaction exhibited in the social web may help address these issues. Instead of emphasizing the exchang...

Schizophrenia Bulletin and the Revised NIH Public Access Policy

Limited public access to published findings stemming from National Institutes of Health (NIH)–funded research, together with a failed attempt to remedy the situation voluntarily, has resulted in a congressional mandate that is sending investigators, universities, and academic publishers scrambling to comply with a new law that is flashing real teeth. Effective April 7, 2008, all peer-reviewed s...

Public health. NIH puts massive U.S. children's study on hold.

A fter more than a decade of costly delays, a controversial plan to study the health of 100,000 U.S. babies to age 21 is in limbo again, in the wake of a critical outside review released on 16 June. At best, researchers will need to rethink their plans yet again. At worst, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) may cancel the study. The National Children’s Study (NCS) “offers enormous potentia...