Biophysical Society Newsletter - June 2015

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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER

2015

JUNE

Publisher's Forum

months after the official date of publication: Provided, that the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law. There were no surprises here as the PubMed Central repository has been established for some time now and authors and publishers have been routinely depositing manuscripts as required. In March 2015, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a public access plan titled To- day’s Data, Tomorrow’s Discoveries that will go into effect January 2016. At that time, NSF-funded articles in peer-reviewed journals and papers ac- cepted for conference proceedings will need to be deposited into a NSF-designated public reposi- tory within 12 months of publication. NSF will initially use the Department of Energy’s Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science as the agency’s public repository and it will be available for NSF-funded authors to use on a voluntary basis by the end of calendar 2015. The Department of Energy (DOE) recently an- nounced the signing of an agreement with Clear- inghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) to ensure public access to “the best available version of the article,” which is defined as the version of record hosted by the publisher. DOE will host a portal and a search tool, the Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (PAGES), to facilitate discoverability of scholarly publications resulting from DOE funding. All researchers receiving DOE funding will be required to submit metadata and a link to the full-text accepted manuscript (or the full text itself ) to the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

Public Access: Where Are We Now? The literature that should be freely accessible online is that which scholars give to the world without expectation of payment— Budapest Open Access Initiative It has been almost two and a half years since the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued the February 22, 2013, memorandum, Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research , which directs each federal agency with more than $100 million in annual research and development expenditures to develop a plan to increase public access to research results funded by the federal government. This year, several plans for public access have been rolled out. In February 2015, the National Institutes of Health released its Plan for Increasing Access to Scientific Publications and Digital Scientific Data from NIH-Funded Scientific Research . The agency policy states: The Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shall require in the current fiscal year and thereafter that all investiga- tors 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 manu- scripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12

Public Access Summary

Institution

Embargo Period

Repository

NIH

Within 12 months

PubMed Central (PMC)

Public Access Gateway for Engineering and Science (PAGES)

NSF

Within 12 months

DOE

Within 12 months

PAGES

Within 12 months until 2017 then immediate open access No more than 6 months for STEM; preference for immediate open access

Gates Foundation

Specified in Foundation Grant

RCUK

Specified in grant from individual Council