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

[Bill Lorensen]

Maybe we should ask specific questions. Ask about SPIE Medical
Imaging, it is used by many NIH authors. Ask about MICCAI. Actually, I
would hope that NIH would create a list of conferences that qualify or
not qualify.

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Torsten Rohlfing
<torsten at synapse.sri.com> wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>  --
>  Torsten Rohlfing, PhD          SRI International, Neuroscience Program
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>   torsten at synapse.sri.com        http://www.stanford.edu/~rohlfing/
>
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>
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