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

[Torsten Rohlfing]

Hi Luis --

Frankly, I would interpret this as:

  "We don't know what we are talking about, but since it is *you* who 
has to comply with the policy, it's your problem, not ours, to figure it 
out."

Basically, they have not answered the question at all, and I doubt they 
actually understood what was being asked. Not exactly encouraging, 
although I guess by continuing to refer to "journal articles" they are 
providing a very convenient loophole for authors of conference papers.

I am not even going to try and raise the issue now of whether or not a 
conference article is considered peer-reviewed if the review is based on 
a shorter form of the paper (e.g., for SPIE Medical Imaging).

Thanks for trying though.
  Torsten

Luis Ibanez wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
> ---------------------
> Luis Ibanez wrote:
>>


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