Scholarly Research Funding, The National Institutes of Health, and Mandatory Open Access (OA)

Jeung, Michael Scholarly Research Funding, The National Institutes of Health, and Mandatory Open Access (OA)., 2009 [Preprint]

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This is an exploration of the efforts to promote open access (OA) to publicly funded scholarly research, specifically those projects supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest supporter of medical research in the world. It analyzes the research support for highly cited articles in several science, technology and medical (STM) journals. In addition, the current impact of the NIH’s mandatory public access policy, which requires freely accessible online publication in the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central within 1 year after initial publication, is reviewed. This paper discusses the evolution of the NIH policy, opposition to its mandate, and other issues of open access and scholarly publishing.

Item type: Preprint
Keywords: open access (OA) National Institutes of Health public funding federal funding green OA scholarly journal federal funding toll access (TA) impact factor Eigenfactor gold OA
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
E. Publishing and legal issues.
B. Information use and sociology of information
Depositing user: Michael Jeung
Date deposited: 09 Nov 2009
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:15
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/13731

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