NIH policy

Here are my larger pieces of news and comment specifically on the adoption of the NIH policy. Chronological order. —Peter Suber.

• The open-access plan from the House Appropriations Committee, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2004

• The NIH open-access plan moves forward, gathers friends and foes, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2004.

• A busy month of action on the NIH open-access plan, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2004.

• Brief update on the NIH plan, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2004.

• Congress approves the NIH plan, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2004.

• NIH Public-Access Policy FAQ. I launched this in early 2005 and stopped updating it in April 2006.

• Comments on the weakening of the NIH public-access policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2005.

• The final version of the NIH public-access policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2005.

• Publisher policies on NIH-funded authors, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2005.

• Update on publisher policies on NIH-funded authors, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2005.

• First fruits of the NIH public-access policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2005.

• Congress wants to see results from the NIH policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2005.

• Update on first fruits of NIH policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, September 2, 2005.

• Strengthening the NIH policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2005.

• Update on the NIH policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2006.

• Open access mandate coming to the NIH, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, July 2, 2006.

• Ten lessons from the funding agency open access policies, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2006.

• Progress toward an OA mandate at the NIH, one more time, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, August 2, 2007.

• Victory in the Senate: Update on the bill to mandate open access at the NIH, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, November 2, 2007.

• Update on the bill mandating OA at the NIH, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, December 2, 2007.

• An open access mandate for the NIH, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, January 2, 2008.

• The mandates of January, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, February 2, 2008.

• An open access mandate for the National Institutes of Health, Open Medicine, April 16, 2008.

• A bill to overturn the NIH policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, October 2, 2008.

• Re-introduction of the bill to kill the NIH policy, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, March 2, 2009.

• Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Copyright and Other Issues. A 68-minute video discussion of federal open-access policy between me and Mark Seeley, Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Elsevier. Held at Harvard Law School, sponsored by the American Bar Association Committee on University Intellectual Property Law, and recorded April 9, 2012. Also see my blog post (June 1, 2012) on this event for some follow-up discussion.

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Also see my writings on OA more generally, and my other work on the history of OA.