Of possible interest: --------------------------------------------------- List-ID: <SPARC-OAForum.arl.org> To: "SPARC Open Access Forum" <SPARC-OAForum@arl.org> From: Alexei Koudinov <sparcoaforum@neurobiologyoflipids.org> Subject: [SOAF] Help your scholars to recognize the momentum and comment on NIH OA plan! 9 September 2004 Dear Open Access Friends, Librarians, Journal Editors, I wonder whether you had a chance to inform your scholars or colleagues about the latest NIH notice "Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information" and call for comments. I feel confident that scientists and students need a bit of librarian help at this critical moment. As major stakeholders in academic knowledge scholars should provide an unbiased comments to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Open Access plan. Academics must be heard and they will be heard! Please help scholars to recognize the momentum, and their critical role in building the future of academic publishing. The time has come. 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NIH intends to request that its grantees and supported Principal Investigators provide the NIH with electronic copies of all final version manuscripts upon acceptance for publication if the research was supported in whole or in part by NIH funding. This would include all research grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, as well as National Research Service Award (NRSA) fellowships. We define final manuscript as the author's version resulting after all modifications due to the peer review process. Submission of the final manuscript will provide NIH supported investigators with an alternate means by which they will meet and fulfill the requirement of the provision of one copy of each publication in the annual or final progress reports. Submission of the electronic versions of final manuscripts will be monitored as part of the annual grant progress review and close-out process..." 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