42 U.S.C. § 282c — Public access to funded investigators’ final manuscripts

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NIH-funded researchers must submit their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central. These must become publicly available within 12 months of publication. NIH must carry this out without violating copyright law.

Starting with the current fiscal year and every year after, the Director of NIH must require all NIH-funded investigators to submit — or have submitted for them — an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central database. This submission must happen once the manuscript is accepted for publication. The manuscript must then be made publicly available no later than 12 months after its official publication date. The section adds one condition: NIH must carry out this public access policy "in a manner consistent with copyright law."

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The Director of the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) shall require in the current fiscal year and thereafter that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 111–8, div. F, title II, § 217, Mar. 11, 2009, 123 Stat. 782.)

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2009Enacted · Pub. L. 111-8 · 123 Stat. 782

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