Free Access to NIH-Funded Research Recommended by House Appropriations Committee
19 Jul 2004
The House Appropriations Committee has recommended that any research articles based on work funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) be made publicly available, for free.
In report language to accompany this year’s NIH funding bill, the House Appropriations Committee asked the agency to require that all journal articles based on NIH-funded research be freely available through PubMed, the National Library of Medicine’s online archive. The report language called for articles to be put on PubMed within six months of appearing in a journal, and would give the NIH until December 1, 2004 to tell Congress how it plans to implement this new policy.
The report language accompanies the House version of the FY 2005 Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Bill, which was approved by the full Appropriations Committee on July 14. The House bill has yet to be approved by the full House of Representatives and reconciled with the Senate version.
See follow up: Open Access Language Appears in NIH Appropriations Report
See related story: Members of British Parliament Support Open Access to Research
Amanda Brewster, SIPPI Staff
Source: The Genetic Alliance
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