[Insight-users] (CF) RE: Are Conference Articles subject to the Public Access NIH Policy ?

[Luis Ibanez]

Office of Extramural Research
National Institutes of Health
1 Center Drive, Room 144
Bethesda, MD  20892-0152
Email:  PublicAccess at nih.gov
Website: http://publicaccess.nih.gov



Thanks a lot for your quick answer to our question.


We have disseminated your answer to the medical image community
and it has triggered a discussion regarding the interpretation
of the answer.


Could you please provide a more crisp, better defined answer
to the following question:



     If a paper that I submit to a peer-reviewed conference,
     describing results from NIH-funded research, gets accepted,
     is this paper subject to the NIH Public Access Policy ?



We will appreciate a lot if your answer can
be less ambiguous.



     Best Regards,



         Luis



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Public Access (NIH/OD) wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez at kitware.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:57 AM
> To: Public Access (NIH/OD)
> Cc: Torsten Rohlfing
> Subject: Are Conference Articles subject to the Public Access NIH Policy ?
> 
> 
> Office of Extramural Research
> National Institutes of Health
> 1 Center Drive, Room 144
> Bethesda, MD  20892-0152
> Email:  PublicAccess at nih.gov
> Website: http://publicaccess.nih.gov
> 
> 
> 
> We are strong supporters of the NIH Public Access policy,
> and regularly send updated about the policy to the mailing
> list of our open source toolkits.
> 
> Recently one of our users have asked in the mailing list
> whether "conference papers" are subject to the NIH Policy,
> or whether only "journal papers" are.
> 
> Upon reading the NIH notice, we couldn't quite answer this
> for sure.
> 
> We would greatly appreciate if you could clarify this point
> for us, so that we can give a well-informed answer on our
> list.
> 
> 
>     Best Regards,
> 
> 
>        Luis
>