Seeing Through New Eyes

We can add Oregon State University to the open access article mandates, along with MIT and Harvard. Yeah!

I just read that MIT faculty have approved an open access policy for their publications. Looks like one more 'big' name school has made a step forward for allowing access to the research and scholarly work produced by the school. http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2009/03/18/mit-open-access-policy-approved/

I just read this posting on the SPARC forum. I am happy to see that this has been upheld and will be permanent. First u.s. public access policy made permanent 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act ensures NIH public access policy will persist Washington, D.C. – March 12, 2009 – President Obama yesterday signed into law the 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes a provision making the National Institutes’ of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy permanent. The NIH Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access requires eligible NIH-funded researchers to deposit electronic copies of their peer-reviewed manuscripts into the National Library of Medicine’s online archive, PubMed Central (PMC). Full texts of the articles are made publicly available and searchable online in PMC no later than 12 months after publication in a journal. The NIH policy was previously implemented with a provision that was subject to annual renewal. Since the implementation of the revised policy the percentag...