NIH public access policy made permanent, new challenges

March 18th, 2009 | allende | Media coverage | Tags: , ,

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Good news!!! Today I have seen that the NIH initiative of public access policy will be made permanent. This is quite some time in a so competitive area as Science. Since the policy was implemented the percentage of manuscript sent to PMC has increase over 3,000 new articles each month.

If the information was overwhelming enough with 2,000 new articles per day -more than 18M scientific articles all together- the free access to full articles will increase the amount of data relevant to biomedicine. This increase is not only on the side of number of articles available but also on the total amount of information since the whole text of the article is going to be accessible. This brings new interesting challenges.

The question now is, how do we get through all the new information fast and efficiently? System that helps get relevant scientific information such as novoseek are more needed than ever.

However, is it really useful for scientists to have the results freely available 1 year behind? Obviously it is not the best possible scenario but the analysis of literature and Grant information could give us an insight on what would be new potential upcoming articles.

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#1    Open access vs Free access — Knowledge beyond words on 04.28.09 at 2:35 pm

[...] access to articles among which some are open access. As we have discussed in previous posts, the NIH public access policy has ensured the access to published results of NIH funded research. However it does not say whether [...]

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