Dear Friends, As most of you know that in United States a legislation has been passed dealing with its National Institute of Health's Policy on Open Access (No wonder, why US is the world leader). This policy will ensure that public will have access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit journal articles that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/). The Policy requires that these articles be accessible to the public on PubMed Central to help advance science and improve human health. US National Library of Medicine comes under NIH and is the leading library and resource in for Biomedical Research. There are some doubts (probably created by publishers' interests) regarding this policy. I am reproducing a table from an article by Peter Suber about the "Common misconceptions about the new NIH open access policy" and the facts. Fiction 1: The mandate is to publish in open access journals. Fact 1: The mandate is to deposit in an open access repository (PubMed Central). Fiction 2: The mandate is to bypass journals and peer review. Fact 2: The mandate is to provide open access to articles already published in peer-reviewed journals. Fiction 3: The mandate applies to the published version of articles. Fact 3: The mandate applies to the final versions of the authors' peer-reviewed manuscripts. Fiction 4: The mandate directs deposits to PubMed. Fact 4: The mandate directs deposits to PubMed Central. Fiction 5: The mandate requires a 12-month embargo on the copy in PubMed Central. Fact 5: The mandate permits an embargo of up to 12 months on the copy in PubMed Central. Fiction 6: The new NIH budget is US$29 million. Fact 6: The new NIH budget is US$29 billion. Fiction 7: The new mandate will last for only 1 year. Fact 7: The new mandate will last indefinitely. Fiction 8: The mandate requires violation of copyright law. Fact 8: The mandate requires compliance with copyright law. Sources: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/271893090/more-on-oa-mandate-... http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/213/135 --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.