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Science 6 May 2005:
Vol. 308. no. 5723, p. 773
DOI: 10.1126/science.308.5723.773c
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The National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) new push to expand public access to papers it funds kicks in this week. As of 2 May, NIH-funded investigators are requested to submit copies of final, accepted journal manuscripts to NIH (www.nihms.nih.gov), which will post them in NIH's PubMed Central papers archive no more than 12 months after they're published in the journal.

NIH announced the policy in February after a 6-month battle between open-access advocates and journal publishers, who say the policy violates copyrights and will put them out of business. One question is how authors will interpret NIH's recommendation that they ask NIH to post their papers "as soon as possible," regardless of when the journal allows free online access to the full text. Also unknown is how well the National Library of Medicine will cope with the flood of manuscripts, expected to number at least 60,000 a year.




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