Nih Funded Research Will Now Be Publically Accessible

[HouseKat]

This is great news because we will have access to research sooner and for free (if you don't count the fact that we paid for it in the first place with our tax dollars...)

"Researchers will now be required to deposit electronic copies of their peer-reviewed manuscripts into the National Library of Medicine

[misdiagnosed6yrs]

This is great news because we will have access to research sooner and for free (if you don't count the fact that we paid for it in the first place with our tax dollars...)

"Researchers will now be required to deposit electronic copies of their peer-reviewed manuscripts into the National Library of Medicine

[HouseKat]

I don't get it. What is this about exactly? I could click the link but I am already confused at what we are referring to.

Currently, most research funded by the National Institutes of Health is published in medical journals so it is only available to subscribers to those journals (which cost hundreds to thousands of dollars per year) or by buying copies of the individual articles (usually starting at $25 each).

This new legislation mandates that all research resulting from NIH grants must be published in a free database accessible to the public within 12 months of being published elsewhere. What this means to us is more research being available to us and also to researchers who might build on that newly available research and make some new breakthrough.

Keeping the research out of the public domain indefinitely only helped the medical journal publishers, this is a wonderful change that will benefit public health.

Kate

[misdiagnosed6yrs]

Currently, most research funded by the National Institutes of Health is published in medical journals so it is only available to subscribers to those journals (which cost hundreds to thousands of dollars per year) or by buying copies of the individual articles (usually starting at $25 each).

This new legislation mandates that all research resulting from NIH grants must be published in a free database accessible to the public within 12 months of being published elsewhere. What this means to us is more research being available to us and also to researchers who might build on that newly available research and make some new breakthrough.

Keeping the research out of the public domain indefinitely only helped the medical journal publishers, this is a wonderful change that will benefit public health.

Kate

Thank you Kate!

Bobbi