Issues regarding journal selection :

Have you found the policy easy to navigate considering your established publication practices?

Have you had to change your publication practices as a result of the policy?

Have you had any difficulty in selecting which journals to publish your NIH funded research in?

Have you had difficulty determining what information needs to be supplied to the publisher regarding your NIH funded manuscript?

Have you found any publishers who have been uncooperative when informed of NIH finding behind your research?

Have you been unable to publish in a journal of your choice due to publisher refusal to accept and publish your NIH funded research?

Did you then have to find a publisher who was more responsive, and subsequently published your research, just not in your journal of choice?


Issues regarding the submission system itself – NIHMSS and the deposition of manuscripts to PubMedCentral?

Did you find any publishers who charged you to deposit your manuscript to PMC, excluding the “Author Pays” open access publishing models in journals, such as PLoS?

The NIHMS also maintains a help desk to assist users with manuscript submissions processes, and answer any questions related to the submission process. Have you used the help desk?
URL : http://nihms.nih.gov/db/sub.cgi?page=email&from=home

Are you aware of any FAQ’s , discussion lists, blogs and other types of networking sites that are available to help you with some of these questions?
Which ones have you used?

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New Timeframe for the PMCID
August 26th, 2009 by Cathy Sarli

http://beckerinfo.net/scp/2009/08/26/new-timeframe-for-the-pmcid/

NIH recently announced a new timeframe for use of the PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) as documentation of compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy when citing an applicable paper in an application, proposal or progress report.

A PMCID is now required for demonstration of compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy for applicable papers that have been in publication more than three months before an application, proposal or progress report is due. If an applicable paper is in press or has been in publication for less than three months, the NIH Manuscript Submission system reference number (NIHMS ID) or “PMC Journal – In Process” may be used as documentation of compliance depending on the submission method used by the authors for an applicable paper.

Resources:

* PMID: PMCID Converter Tool

The converter tool displays the NIHMS ID for a work submitted via Methods C and D using the PMID (if available). The PMID is a number assigned to citations added to MEDLINE/PubMed.

* Submission Method Chart

This handy chart from NIH outlines the four methods of submission and includes information on who is responsible for the approval tasks and how to demonstrate compliance.

* Clarification on the Use of an NIHMSID to Indicate Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy (NOT-OD-09-136)

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I am trying to find out what journal an article involving "The brain waves" and recording them to help people sleep presented by Leonid Kayumov to the APSS. Anyone have any ideas where I can find this?

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http://www.publishers.org/main/PressCenter/Archicves/2009_Feb/02_FairCopyright.htm

Washington, DC, February 4, 2009: The Association of American Publishers welcomed the re-introduction of legislation to safeguard the rights of authors and publishers of copyrighted, peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, and praised House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-MI), Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) for their bipartisan leadership and continuing support in protecting the rights of the scientific and scholarly publishing community.
The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, HR 801, was re-introduced in response to a government mandate that allows the National Institutes of Health to make the content of publishers’ value-added, peer-reviewed journal articles freely available online within 12 months of publication. The legislation would recognize the importance of the added value in quality assurance controls that journal publishers contribute to ensure the integrity of such articles as key components of the nation’s record on scientific research, and would help keep the Federal Government from undermining copyright protection for journal articles where private-sector publishers have added such significant value. The legislation would address serious concerns that the mandate is inconsistent with policies underlying U.S. copyright law and undermines our nation’s ability to comply with international copyright treaty obligations.

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AUTISM SPEAKS ANNOUNCES NEW POLICY TO GIVE FAMILIES EASY, FREE ACCESS TO KEY RESEARCH FINDINGS
Becomes First U.S. Public Advocacy Organization Requiring Grant Recipients to Post Scientific Papers on Free PubMed Central Archive

NEW YORK, N.Y. (November 12, 2008) – Autism Speaks, the nation’s largest autism advocacy organization, today announced that effective December 3, 2008, all researchers who receive an Autism Speaks grant will be required to deposit any resulting peer-reviewed research papers in the PubMed Central online archive, which will make the articles available to the public within 12 months of journal publication. This new policy will make the results of Autism Speaks- funded research easily accessible – at no charge – to individuals with autism, families and other advocates, as well as interested researchers. Autism Speaks is the first U.S.-based non-profit advocacy organization to institute this public access requirement.
Posting articles on PubMed Central not only makes the results of research more accessible, it also integrates them with other research and data, making it easier for scientists worldwide to pursue autism research and make discoveries. Equally important, families, clinicians, patients, educators, and students reap the benefits by having open access to Autism Speaks-funded research. PubMed Central’s trusted repository of full-text biomedical journal articles is freely available online athttp://www.pubmedcentral.gov.
While families are now able to view a wide range of information about autism research online, they often do not have easy access to primary sources, including peer-reviewed scientific literature. This new policy will allow everyone to access complete articles that in the past may have been available only through fee-based journals.
To learn more about Autism Speaks, please visit http://www.autismspeaks.org/

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From: SPARC Policy Action Network [mailto:SPARC-PAN@arl.org] On Behalf Of Jennifer McLennan
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 7:53 AM
Dear friends,
It’s hard to describe how important your letters and calls to Congress have been over the last two weeks. Your quick action and cogent expressions of support for the NIH policy, and of strong opposition to HR6845, have helped our efforts to stop this latest threat to the NIH Public Access policy enormously. Thank you.
As a result of the collaborative efforts of constituents, and of our partner organizations ARL, AALL, ACRL, ALA, ATA, GWLA, MLA, AAHSL, PLoS, Public Knowledge, Science Commons, Genetic Alliance, AVAC, ACOR, Chordoma Foundation – and many, many others – we secured a spot as witness at the hearing last Thursday. Heather Joseph testified on behalf of the library and patient communities, and as a career-long publisher, and brought much-needed balance to the meeting.
To watch the hearing or read testimony from the four witnesses, see the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Web page at http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_090911_1.html.

There was also some significant media coverage of the event, from:
• The Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com/daily/2008/09/4589n.htm
• Library Journal - http://www.libraryjournal.com/info/CA6595597.html?nid=2673#news1
Your contributions helped this to happen. Thank you.
There’s more work yet to be done while HR6845, the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, remains on the table. Please stay tuned for next steps.
With best wishes,
Jennifer McLennan
Director of Communications
SPARC
(The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition)
http://www.arl.org/sparc
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(202) 296-2296 ext 121
jennifer@arl.org

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The Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee in the US is scheduled to hold a hearing on September 11. According to media reports, the move is seen to be a legislative attempt to redress publishers' concerns that public access policies - the recently enacted policy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - conflict with copyright and intellectual property laws. No text has yet been released for the legislation, tentatively titled the ‘Fair Copyright in Research Works Act.’ Also, the hearing has not appeared on the subcommittee's schedule.

The legislative hearing follows the success of publishers in adding a key phrase to the NIH public access mandate just before the bill’s passage in December 2007. The added clause calls for the NIH policy to be implemented ‘in a manner consistent with copyright law.’ In recent months, the possibility of a legal or legislative challenge began to seem almost certain. In comments to the NIH on implementation this spring, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) included a legal memo backing publisher claims that the NIH policy conflicts with copyright law. In June, NIH director Elias Zerhouni denied publishers’ request that the policy go through a federal rulemaking process.

Shortly after passage of the NIH public access policy, AAP’s VP for legal and government affairs Allan Adler reiterated the publishers’ position that the measure was ‘unprecedented’ and ‘inconsistent’ with intellectual property laws. It was vowed that publishers would continue opposition. Anticipating such a challenge, officials at SPARC and the Association of Research Libraries, however, have strongly denied that the NIH public access policy conflicts with copyright. Last year, they prepared a memo of their own in this regard.

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The Policy applies to all peer-reviewed journal manuscripts. The Policy does not apply to non-peer-reviewed materials such as correspondence, book chapters, and editorials.

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