To help authors navigate the policies of journal publishers, who often demand exclusive rights to material, and a federal agency that demands the material be made publicly available, the Association of Research Libraries has released a report on how to comply with the policies of 12 publishers.
The report focuses on the requirements of the recently revised National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy. NIH now requires those authors who received grants from them to deposit their articles in PubMed Central, the institutes’ online archive, within 12 months of publication.
The report, “PubMed Central Deposit and Author Rights”, has been written by Ben Grillot, a second-year law student George Washington University, who concentrated on the differences between the terms and procedures of deposit of the work, the length of embargoes, and the rights of the author to use and share the work during the embargo period, the ARL said in a news release.
The document, which includes tables showing similarities and differences across agreements, is available for free at the ARL Web site.—Maria José Viñas
