Campus perspective on the National Institutes of Health public access policy: University of California, San Francisco, library experience

From the abstract: "At the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), an academic health sciences campus, the authors have developed a web page and offered staff training and workshops for various campus groups about how to comply with the [NIH] policy....We also established a dedicated email address for UCSF patrons to ask questions about the policy, which has received approximately ten queries in the past eighteen months....This communication reports the results of a survey conducted in the spring of 2009 to gauge awareness of the NIH public access policy among faculty and other academics at UCSF, as well as their feelings (positive and negative) about the open access movement. The UCSF Library has participated in many efforts in recent years to raise campus awareness about the possibilities of open access publishing, and this survey provided an opportunity to understand how best to focus future outreach to faculty on this topic...."