The Ad Hoc Committee for Advocating Scholarly Communication sponsored an Open Forum to discuss the issues that have surfaced in the past year regarding the NIH Public Access Policy. Since April 7, 2008 all investigators funded by the NIH have been required to submit their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central (PMC) and these submissions must be publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication. In addition, anyone submitting an application, proposal, or progress report to the NIH must include the PMC or NIH Manuscript Submission reference number when citing applicable articles that arise from their NIH funded research. (NOT-OD-08-033 <http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html>) Principal investigators and institutions are responsible for full compliance of this law. Libraries and research offices across the country have been establishing new procedures to enable the research community to meet the terms of both the government requirement for public access as well copyright compliance with the journal publishers. Read more» » »
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Senators John Cornyn(R-TX) and Joe Lieberman(ID-CT) reintroduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) (S1373) last week. This bill builds upon legislation that enacted the NIH Public Access Policy by requiring federal agencies with annual extramural research budgets of $100 million or more to implement a public access policy that is consistent with and advances the federal purpose of the respective agency. Under this legislation, each agency would be required to: Read more» » »
From MLA HQ:
Health and Medicine Counsel of Washington reports that yesterday evening the Senate passed the FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations package by voice vote. This spending measure increases the annual budgets for many federal health and education programs. Upon enactment, the National Institutes of Health will receive a $938 million funding increase to bring the agency’s total level of support up to $30.3 billion. Read more» » »
This alert was issued on March 5 about last night’s anticipated vote. According to the New York Times, the Senate failed to pass the bill last night, but may try again next week.
From the Medical Library Association Information Issues and Policy Coordinator:
ACTION ALERT
Ensure passage of the FY 2009 omnibus appropriations package and
increase federal public health funding.
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) has expressed concern that there are not enough votes yet in the Senate to pass the FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations bill (H.R. 1105). He also has indicated that if the Senate does not approve the omnibus tonight, Congress will extend the continuing resolution (CR) through the remainder of FY 2009. The CR is presently level-funding federal public health initiatives at their FY 2008 level.
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The $787 billion economic stimulus bill approved by Congress will, for the first time, provide substantial amounts of money for the NIH and for related Health Concerns which were highlighted in the stimulus package summary previously presented.
Included in this Omnibus package is the FY 2009 Labor-HHS-Educations Appropriations bill. Currently, most Federal health and education programs are funded at their FY 2008 levels by a continuing resolution (CR) that will expire on March 6. Recognizing that the CR is set to expire, it is likely that appropriators will work to advance this legislation in the near future. Below are the preliminary details on the funding within this package.
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