SLA Provides Comments on NIH Public Access Policy

SLA provided comments to Elias Zerhouni, M.D. at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) expressing general support of the NIH Public Access Policy. SLA recommended shortening the embargo period and producing a list of publishers whose author publishing agreements provide for deposit with PubMed Central in a manner that is consistent with copyright law. The letter also strongly opposed the possibility of  NIH acting as a dark archive and providing links to publishers’ Web sites.
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