Current Issues in Scientific Publishing
NIH Public Access Policy Now Mandatory
On January 11, 2008, in response to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a revision of its Public Access Policy. Effective April 7, 2008, the Policy requires all investigators to deposit (or have deposited for them) their articles in the PubMed Central digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Specifics about this new mandatory policy, as well as links to important resources are provided here. The Prior Health Sciences Library is working with The OSU Research Foundation to outline steps to help local researchers navigate the policy and procedures.
March 21 update: A letter to OSU investigators and detailed local instructions for meeting the mandate requirements is available.
NIH Public Access Policy Resources
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Support New Open Access Publishing Opportunities
Pure Open Access vs. Hybrid Open Access
- The Directory of Open Access and Hybrid Journals
This section of the DOAJ is designed for authors who are exploring publishing their research as open access. Authors can review journal titles by subject area and learn which publishers charge author fees for publishing their works as open access.
Discounted Fees for OSU Authors
- PLoS Publications
OhioLINK will fund half of the publication fee for all faculty and researchers at OhioLINK member institutions whose articles are published in the Public Library of Science’s (PLoS) open-access journals. The OSU Libraries provide additional support to PloS as an Institutional Member.
- Nucleic Acids Research, Oxford University Press
Beginning in 2005, all articles published in NAR are made freely available online immediately upon publication. OhioLINK will reimburse one-half of all basic fees charged to Ohio authors.
- BioMed Central Publications
OhioLINK has invested in BioMed Central institutional membership for 84 institutions in the state.The OhioLINK membership allows faculty to reap all the benefits of publishing research articles in any of BioMed Central’s 100+ open-access journals, without paying separate article processing charges.
Author Rights
- CIC activities related to author rights and scholarly communication.
- SHERPA RoMEO Service
Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.
- SPARC Author's Addendum
Use this form to amend standard publisher agreements, allowing you to retain rights to deposit your article in a non-commercial depository or to use your article in the classes you teach.
For more information regarding these new publishing models and the OSU author fee reimbursement process, please contact Lynda Hartel, Assistant Director for Resource Management.
Select organizations and discussion groups
- SPARC: the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, an alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations
- Open Access News Blog: Current news, including publisher-specific open access programs
- Harvard adopts new open access policy for its faculty members
Background on journal price increases
How the Library can help you
There are many changes taking place in academic publishing today, particularly in the sciences. This web site will be updated as new developments occur.
The Prior Health Sciences Library will work with OSU Health Sciences Center faculty and researchers to better understand the recent NIH Policy, discounted publishing options for local authors, open access publishing initiatives, journal impact factors, and other topics related to scientific publishing. Contact Lynda Hartel, Assistant Director for Resource Management, at 2-4892.
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