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

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...

Healing the NIH-Funded Biomedical Research Enterprise

Many feel that the R01 grant system supporting biomedical research in the U.S. is broken, discouraging entry of young investigators into the system and inadequately supporting more established investigators. Here, I argue for a "person-not-project"-based scheme that would permit creative, unfettered research by new investigators, better tie ongoing research contributions to continued funding, a...

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...

Letter to authors and readers regarding the new NIH policy on public access.

Integrating Economic Analysis into NIH Funded Research webinar summary