Mandate for Public Access to NIH-Funded Research Poised to Become Law

ATA — Mandate for Public Access to NIH-​​Funded Research Poised to Become Law:

The U.S. Senate last night approved the FY2008 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Bill (S.1710), includ­ing a pro­vi­sion that directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen its Public Access Policy by requir­ing rather than request­ing par­tic­i­pa­tion by researchers. The bill will now be rec­on­ciled with the House Appropriations Bill, which con­tains a sim­i­lar pro­vi­sion, in another step toward sup­port for pub­lic access to pub­licly funded research becom­ing United States law.