Today (April 7) is the start day of the National Institutes of Health mandate requiring that all research funded by NIH dollars be deposited into PubMed Central within one year of publication. Any articles arising from NIH funds that are accepted for publication starting today must be submitted to the database. The policy is part of a mandate issued in January by the NIH in accordance with the Congressional linkurl:appropriations;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54028/ bill for 2008. The details of the mandate were discussed at a public meeting on March 20 in Bethesda, Md, which you can read more about linkurl:here.;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/54442/ While the majority of the public, institutions, and publishers have shown support for the mandate, there is still dissent among some publishing groups. An NIH request for linkurl:public comment;http://publicaccess.nih.gov/comments.htm began on March 31 and will be open until May 31. Many publishing groups feel that the mandate undermines the interests of the publishing...
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