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Presented by: Angelica Tavella

Advisor: Paul Duguid

UC Berkeley

McNair Symposium 2012

April 8, 2008: The Consolidated

Appropriations Act is passed, which

requires all Scientific and Medical

research funded by the National

Institute of Health to be made freely

available online within 1 year of

publication.

How has the NIH

Public Access

mandate effected

publishing policy and

created more

openness of

scientific and

medical research?

But what IS Public Access?

What is a National

Institute of Health?

What does one mean by “open”?

PUBLIC ACCESS:

-Electronic version of peer-reviewed article

-Within 12 months of original publication

-As long as it is consistent with Copyright Law

OPEN ACCESS:

-Freely and immediately available

online

-Available to read, download, copy,

distribute, print, search, and use data.

National Institute of Health

-Agency of the US Department of Health

and Human Services.

-Largest funder of Biomedical and health

related research.

-27 Institutions and Centers

-Funded over $30,000 million of research in

2011.

1.Accessibility:Having free, immediate, unrestricted access to digital materials

2.Responsiveness: Full, non-commercial rights to use a work without restriction other than requiring attribution to the author.

The White Album- The Beatles

The Grey Album- DJ Danger Mouse

-2 Categories:

Pediatrics- $3,927 million of NIH funding in 2011

Biomedical Engineering- $3,303 of NIH funding in 2011

-5 Publishers:

-Wiley-Blackwell, Springer, Elsevier

-Two top Society publishers

-Subjects: 10 Journals

Procedure:

-Quantitative: Data collected from

PubMed Central

-Qualitative: Analysis of publisher’s

Copyright Transfer Agreement and

Open Access Options.

% of Articles Available on PubMed Central

0

5

10

15

20

25

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

% O

n P

MC

Year

% Available on PMC- Biomedical Engineering

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

Biomedical Materials

Biomaterials

Acta Biomaterials

Journal OF Biomedical Materials Research PartA

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

% o

n P

MC

% Available on PMC -Pediatrics

Developmental Medicine And Child Neurology

Archives of Pediatrics

Pediatrics

Journal of Pediatrics

Journal of Adolescent Health

23

9

10

12 12

30

27

18

13

12

8

28

11 11

12

11

23

17

14

13 13

11

33

16

13

12

10

11

21

32

19

25

12

66

0

6

8

11

8

32

15

24

13

15

12

14

18

21

11

13

12

27

24

20

14

12 12

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

�2006 �2007 �2008 �2009 �2010 �2011

Average Embargo Period (all journals)

Developmental Med. And Child Neurology(Wiley)

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine(AMA)

Pediatrics(AAP)

Journal of Pediatrics(Elsevier)

Journal of Adolescent Health(Elsevier)

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology(Springer)

Biomedical Microdevices(Springer)

Biomaterials(Elsevier)

Acta Biomaterials(Elsevier)

JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A (Wiley)

Policy Makers/Gov’t/Funding

Research, Development, Ideas

Public

Access

Mandate

Publishers

Future Innovators

Where Is the Roadblock?

Who Holds The Key?

Suggestions

-Policy should have a shortened embargo period.

-Commercial Publishers should have Gold Open Access models.

-However Industry, Institutions, and Bureaucracy are hard to sway.

-We as scholars, scientists, and knowledge

producers need to take initiative to make

our works more open.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the great faculty support:Paul Duguid (mentor)Margaret PhillipsMichael Eisen

And of course:

The McNair StaffJordan GonzalesThe girls…Abiola, Amira, Sarah, Sandrita, and Wanda!And of course the entire McNair cohort