scholarly journals The NIH public access policy did not harm biomedical journals

PLoS Biology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. e3000352
Author(s):  
A. Townsend Peterson ◽  
Paul E. Johnson ◽  
Narayani Barve ◽  
Ada Emmett ◽  
Marc L. Greenberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Access ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Biomedical Journals

scholarly journals Publishing trends of journals with manuscripts in PubMed Central: changes from 2008–2009 to 2015–2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Topper ◽  
Diane Boehr
Keyword(s):  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Manuscript Submission ◽  
National Library ◽  
Pubmed Central ◽  
The Public ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Biomedical Journals ◽  
Bibliographic Data

Objective: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy mandates that all articles containing NIH-funded research must be deposited into PubMed Central (PMC). The aim of this study was to assess publishing trends of journals that were not selected for the National Library of Medicine (NLM) collection but contain NIH-funded articles submitted to PMC in compliance with the public access policy. In addition, the authors investigated the degree to which NIH-funded research is published in journals that NLM does not collect due to concerns with the publishers.Methods: We analyzed bibliographic data from the NIH Manuscript Submission system for journals that were not selected for the NLM collection from August 2015 to August 2016. Publications (n=738) were analyzed by language, publishing country, publishing format, and subject, and the results were compared to a similar study of 2008–2009 data. In addition, publications were analyzed by whether their publishers are collected by NLM, as determined by transparency and adherence to publishing best practices.Results: Only a few differences were found between the studies. Most notably, while both studies revealed that most journals were not selected for the NLM collection because they were out of scope (i.e., not biomedical), we noted an increase in 2015–2016 in biomedical journals containing NIH-funded articles that were not added to the collection due to concerns with the publishers.Conclusions: While the current number of NIH-funded manuscripts being published by publishers that are not collected by NLM remains quite small, we noted a substantial increase between 2008–2009 and 2015–2016.

NIH public access policy

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith W. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Public Access ◽  
Access Policy

scholarly journals Navigating the NIH Public Access Policy for Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Robin Liston ◽  
Richard J. Barohn
Keyword(s):  
Public Access ◽  
Access Policy

scholarly journals New mandates? No problem for The Rockefeller University Press

2013 ◽  
Vol 210 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-645
Author(s):  
Mike Rossner
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Experimental Medicine ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
General Physiology ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Research Councils ◽  
Text And Data Mining

The existing public access policy for our three journals—The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The Journal of General Physiology—is fully compliant with new policies from the Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the Wellcome Trust. In addition to mandating public access, the new policies specify licensing terms for reuse of content by third parties, in particular for text and data mining. We question the need for these specific terms, and we have added a statement to our licensing policy stipulating that anyone, including commercial entities, is permitted to mine our published text and data.

scholarly journals Mandating access: assessing the NIH’s public access policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (102) ◽  
pp. 269-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Staudt
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
National Institutes Of Health ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Pubmed Central ◽  
The Public ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Widespread Access ◽  
Matched Comparison ◽  
Modest Effect

SUMMARY In April 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) implemented the Public Access Policy (PAP), which mandated that the full text of NIH-supported articles be made freely available on PubMed Central – the NIH’s repository of biomedical research. This paper uses 600,000 NIH articles and a matched comparison sample to examine how the PAP impacted researcher access to the biomedical literature and publishing patterns in biomedicine. Though some estimates allow for large citation increases after the PAP, the most credible estimates suggest that the PAP had a relatively modest effect on citations, which is consistent with most researchers having widespread access to the biomedical literature prior to the PAP, leaving little room to increase access. I also find that NIH articles are more likely to be published in traditional subscription-based journals (as opposed to ‘open access’ journals) after the PAP. This indicates that any discrimination the PAP induced, by subscription-based journals against NIH articles, was offset by other factors – possibly the decisions of editors and submission behaviour of authors.

PLOS Position on NIH Public Access Policy

Science ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 308 (5720) ◽  
pp. 356a-356a
Author(s):  
A. Gass
Keyword(s):  
Public Access ◽  
Access Policy
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