PL 110-85 enacted September 27, 2007 amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the scope of clinical trails that must be registered in ClinicalTrials.gov. It increases the number of registration fields, requires certain results information to be included and sets penalties for noncompliance. Click here for statutory definition of applicable clinical trials. NIH encourages registration of all trails whether reuired under the law or not. The entity responsible for registering is the “responsible party”. The statute defines the responsible party as the sponsor of the trial or the principal investigator if so designated by a sponsor, grantee, contractor, or awardee. Penalties for responsible parties who fail to register, or provide false or misleading information in connection with applicable clinical trials are significant and may include civil monetary penalties and for federally-funded trials, the withholding or recovery of grant funds. Trials may be registered directly at the protocol registration system section of the Clinical Trials website.
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On November 15 2007 the U.S. House convened to vote on overriding the President’s veto of FY 2008 Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Appropriations bill that contained funding for NIH, NLM and the provision making the NIH public access policy mandatory. The vote was 277 to 141, just shy of the required 2/3 majority needed to override the Presidential veto.
Save the Date: May 13 and 14, 2008 librarians will converge on Washington D.C. for National Library Legislative Day (NLLS).
This annual, two day event brings together people who care about libraries. Librarians participate in advocacy and issue training, meet Capitol Hill insiders, and visit Congressional offices to ask for legislation that supports libraries. Click here for registration details!
Established on December 1, 1967, the Office of Intellectual Freedom is charged with implementing American Library Association policies concerning the concept of intellectual freedom as embodied in the Library Bill of Rights. OIF’s goal is to educate both librarians and the general public about the importance of intellectual freedom in libraries. Please visit OIF’s Blog to keep current of intellectual freedom issues that impact all of us.
Virtua Health (http://www.virtua.org) has an immediate opening for a Medical Librarian.
Role Statement: Oversees and manages daily operations of the Medical Library at Virtua’s Voorhees Campus. Proactively plans, implements, and administers knowledge-based information services for both clinical and non-clinical Virtua-Voorhees customers through Virtua’s multi-site Library collection (print and electronic resources) and through cooperating Library network systems, including the National Library of Medicine.
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