Emergency Access Initiative Launched

Emergency Access Initiative

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), in partnership with members of  the Professional & Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of
American Publishers announce the availability of free full-text articles from over 200 biomedical journals and over 30 select reference books for libraries and hospitals affected by the earthquake in Haiti.  The collection is also intended for healthcare personnel responding to the disaster.

The Emergency Access Initiative collection is a combination of common biomedical journal titles and reference books, and also emergency medicine related titles.  The Emergency Access Initiative serves as a temporary collection replacement and/or supplement for libraries affected by disasters that need to continue to serve medical staff and affiliated users.  It is also intended for medical personnel responding to the specified disaster.

The literature is being provided as part of the Emergency Access
Initiative – a collaborative partnership between NLM, the National
Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and participating publishers to provide free access to full-text articles and select reference books to
healthcare professionals and libraries affected by disasters.  While the
project was established to assist libraries affected by disasters in the
United States, NLM and the publishers are activating the Emergency
Access Initiative today in light of the medical disaster unfolding in
the aftermath of the earthquake.

Emergency Access Initiative: http://eai.nlm.nih.gov

For questions regarding the Emergency Access Initiative, please email
custserv@nlm.nih.gov or call 1-888-346-3656 in the United States, or
301-594-5983 internationally.  Libraries in the United States can
contact their Regional Medical Library for assistance and support at
1-800-338-7657

NIH Public Access Policy Update

The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to published results of NIH funded research. Awardees are required to provide NIH with evidence of compliance for applicable papers that are authored by the Principal Investigator (PI) or that arise from the PI’s NIH-funded research.

As described in a recent Guide Notice, effective August 21, 2009, the NIHMSID may be used to demonstrate compliance on NIH applications, proposals or reports, for up to three months after a paper is published. Three or more months after publication, a PubMed Central® reference number (PMCID) must be provided. Only the PMCID signifies that all steps of the NIH Public Access submission process are complete and that the paper is ready for posting at PubMed Central.

This Notice also reminds awardee institutions of the actions they can take to ensure compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. Its release corresponds to an update and simplification of the NIH Public Access Web site.

NIH Public Access Update: Clarifying Use of the NIH Manuscript Submission Reference Number (NIHMSID). NLM Tech Bull. 2009 Jul-Aug;(369):e7.

NIH Public Access Policy

NIH Public Access Policy (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/)

New federal legislation is now in effect which mandates that researchers funded by NIH grants must submit an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed articles that are fully or partially funded by NIH within 12 months of publication. The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit journal articles that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central. The Policy requires that these articles be accessible to the public on PubMed Central to help advance science and improve human health.

This policy is a Term and Condition of Award for all grants and cooperative agreements active in Fiscal Year 2008 (October 1, 2007- September 30, 2008) or beyond, and for all contracts awarded after April 7, 2008. Principal Investigators and their Institutions are responsible for ensuring all terms and conditions of the award are met.

Visit the Health Sciences Library’s website (http://library.luhs.org) and click on NIH Public Access Policy (found on the left side of the library homepage under the Home tab). This link will lead you to more detailed information, FAQs, and access to the NIH Submission System.

If you have questions or need more information, please contact either myself (jsadlik@lumc.edu, 6-5304) or Donald Nagolski (dnagols@lumc.edu, 6-5308).