NIH to Begin Enforcing Open-Access Policy on Research It Supports - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The article is TA. Here's an excerpt: "First came voluntary. Then came mandatory. And now, four years after the National Institutes of Health required that all research papers be made freely available within a year of publication, comes enforcement. The NIH, in a statement issued on Friday, said that beginning in about five months, it would block the renewal of grant awards in cases where journal publications arising from the award do not comply with its open-access rule...."While compliance to the policy currently stands at 75 percent and continues to edge upward," said Neil M. Thakur, program manager for the public-access policy in Ms. Rockey's office, the "NIH believes that four years has been sufficient time for NIH grantees to adjust to the requirement." The announcement is a welcome sign of the NIH's commitment to insist upon public access to publicly supported research, said Peter Suber, a research professor of philosophy at Earlham College who is director of the Harvard Open Access Project. "I can't think of a better way to get the attention of principal investigators," Mr. Suber wrote on his Web site...."