Nat'l Institutes of Health: ALL their papers will be free to access starting July 1!!!

[thewayne]

There used to be up to a twelve-month embargo on the release of the full papers of NIH research, starting in July that goes away! People were able to access the abstracts for free, but if you needed the full paper, you had to have insider access via library or other research connections. But now you won't need an intermediary!

Of course, there's always a chance that Our Beloved Leader or other Powers That Be will shut this down. But this is THE Director of NIH that announced this, so with luck it will hold.

https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/accelerating-access-research-results-new-implementation-date-2024-nih-public-access-policy

Comments

[silveradept]

That's very interesting, and seems completely counter to the entire ethos of this administration. I wonder if there's some research that they want to speed to getting out, possibly because of funding or staffing issues.

[thewayne]

Hard to say.  They said that 1.5 million papers published since 2008, that's an average of 55,555 a year, 152 a day.  I find it doubtful with a volume like that that there's a single paper or type of research they're rushing to get out, but you never know.