March-April 2010

Frame of Reference: Open Access Starts with You

by Lori A. Goetsch

Federal legislation now requires the deposit of some taxpayer-funded research in “open-access” repositories—that is, sites where scholarship and research are made freely available over the Internet. The National Institutes of Health's open-access policy requires submission of NIH-funded research to PubMed Central, and there is proposed legislation—the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009—that extends this requirement to research funded by 11 other federal agencies.

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