Saturday, July 05, 2008

"managing copyright for nih public access"

The June 2008 ARL newsletter contains an article on how institutions and research faculty can address copyright management and rights retention, given the federal requirement that NIH-supported research articles be deposited in PubMed Central within one year of publication.

The article's author, Kevin Smith of Duke University (whom I had a chance to meet during the 2006 ARL repository immersion conference in Durham) describes both short-term and long-term strategies for addressing this requirement. It's definitely an opportunity for libraries and sponsored projects offices, and perhaps other campus units, to work together to strengthen compliance.

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