[Insight-users] OPEN ACCESS: NIH POLICY EFFECTIVE : Monday April 7 2008

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Torsten,

We got the following answer from NIH:

<quote>
Thank you for your e-mail to Public Access at the National Institutes of
Health (NIH).

The Policy applies to all peer-reviewed journal articles, including
research reports and reviews. The Policy does not apply to
non-peer-reviewed materials such as correspondence, book chapters, and
editorials. Therefore, if the conference article is a non-peer-reviewed
article, then it is not subject to the public access policy.

Regards from GrantsInfo on behalf of Public Access
Public Access: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/


GrantsInfo provides general information about NIH extramural medical and
behavioral research, research training programs,
and the grant application process.
</quote>



I would interpret this as:


      Articles accepted at peer-reviewed
      conferences are subject to the policy.



Please let us know if you have any other questions,


    Thanks,



       Luis


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Luis Ibanez wrote:
> 
> Hi Torsten,
> 
> That's an excellent question.
> 
> Thanks for bringing this up.
> 
> This is very important in our domain, where most of the papers
> are first submitted to Conferences and then "improved" versions
> are submitted to Journals.
> 
> 
> You are right that "conferences" are not explicitly mentioned in
> the NIH notice.  We have therefore submitted the question to
> "PublicAccess at nih dot gov". Hopefully we will hear from them
> soon.
> 
> 
> I would speculate that the spirit of the policy definitely
> includes conferences publications,...
> 
> but...
> 
> let's wait and hear the answer from an NIH official.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>    In the meantime,
>    hold on on signing those predatory
>    copyright transfer agreements, if
>    you are still submitting papers to
>    Closed Journals or Closed Conferences...   :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> BTW: I have been trying to calculate how much should
>      Journals pay in royalties to the authors of papers.
> 
>      My understanding is that a 10% of royalties on sales
>      is a standard agreement in the realm of book sales,
>      and that a $1 per CD is a standard in the realm of
>      music.
> 
>      Currently the royalties that authors receive from
>      Journals are in the range of 0%. Which clearly sound
>      like an unfair exploitation of human labor. This is
>      a similar compensation to what is paid to reviewers
>      for their intellectual contributions to the peer-review
>      process, usually in the range of $0.00.
> 
>      The typical copyright transfer agreement of scientific
>      Journals, not only doesn't compensate authors for
>      transferring their copyrights, but also impose liability
>      terms where authors agree to indemnify Journals from any
>      copyright infringement claims made by third parties.
> 
>      It is questionable then, how Journals get so worked up
>      about protecting "their" copyrights, when they "acquire"
>      such copyrights for free, by exploiting the creative
>      intellectual work of researchers, in many cases at the
>      expense of public funds.
> 
> 
> 
>     Regards,
> 
> 
>         Luis
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------
> Torsten Rohlfing wrote:
> 
>> Hi Luis and everyone:
>>
>> While this is being raised, I would like to ask a question that at 
>> least I cannot find answered anywhere in the information provided by 
>> the NIH.
>>
>>  What exactly is an "article"?
>>
>> The NIH FAQ seems to use the terms "peer-reviewed article" and 
>> "journal paper" interchangeably, but they are not the same (conference 
>> papers are often peer reviewed as well). SO what exactly does the 
>> policy apply to?
>>
>> Maybe someone enlightened can shine some light on this for me.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>  Torsten
>>
>>> The NIH Public Access policy
>>>
>>>
>>>              http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
>>>
>>>
>>> states that:
>>>
>>>
>>>                    As of *April 7 2008*
>>>
>>>          *all articles* arising from NIH funds
>>>          *must* be submitted to PubMed Central
>>>          upon *acceptance* for publication.
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>>
>