{"id":20621,"date":"2012-12-01T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=20621"},"modified":"2012-12-07T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T08:17:30","slug":"us-nih-to-enforce-open-access-to-clincal-trial-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/20621","title":{"rendered":"US NIH to enforce open access to clincal trial results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a public-access policy for research that it funds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This requires investigators to submit papers arising from NIH-funded research to the PubMed Central repository as soon as they are accepted for publication. [1]<\/p>\n<p>The papers must then be freely accessible to the public within 12months of publication. However, this currently only has a compliance rate of 75%.<\/p>\n<p>On 16November 2012, the NIH announced next year (beginning as soon as spring 2013), it would withhold the future grant instalments from recipients who have not complied. [2]<\/p>\n<h2>comment<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Ensuring that publically funded research is freely accessible is a major step towards the democratisation of medical literature. This should parrallel the broader involvement of patients at all stages of their care.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The UK Research Council has a similar policy \u2013 sometimes requiring open access within six months \u2013 but it is unclear how well this is currently implemented.<\/strong> [3]<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>US NIH. Upcoming Changes to Public Access Policy Reporting Requirements and Related NIH Efforts to Enhance Compliance. (16 Novemebr 2012).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-12-160.html\">http:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-12-160.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>NIH Open Access Policy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/publicaccess.nih.gov\/policy.htm\">http:\/\/publicaccess.nih.gov\/policy.htm<\/a><\/li>\n<li>UK Research Policy on Open Access<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcuk.ac.uk\/research\/Pages\/outputs.aspx\">http:\/\/www.rcuk.ac.uk\/research\/Pages\/outputs.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a public-access policy for research that it funds. This requires investigators to submit papers arising from NIH-funded research to the PubMed Central repository as soon as they are accepted for publication. [1] &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treatment-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}