Wednesday April 2, 4-5PM Blue Room on the first floor of the Engineering Library, Carpenter Hall
Instructor: John Saylor, jms1@cornell.edu

No registration is necessary

This session will be of interest to all NIH (National Institutes of Health)- funded investigators who publish peer-reviewed literature and their grant managers. We will focus on the largest compliance issue for authors, managing copyright permissions.

On January 11, 2008, the NIH adopted a revised-and now mandatory-Public Access Policy that requires all NIH-funded investigators to submit their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts to the NIH’s PubMed Central (PMC) database (the digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/) upon acceptance for journal publication.

Compliance with the policy is a term and condition of all grants and cooperative agreements active in Fiscal Year 2008 or beyond, and for all contracts awarded after April 7, 2008.

The session will cover:

1. What you need to know about copyright ownership in order to comply with this requirement.
2. How to deposit articles in PubMed Central.
3. How this increases access to your research as well as your access to peer-reviewed articles of NIH funded research.

For more information see the Library’s webpage about the new policy at http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/nihmandate.html