Effective 7 April of 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiated a ground-braking policy that requires all research funded by NIH to be deposited in an open access repository, such as PubMed Central, upon acceptance for publication. This policy ensures that research funded by taxpayers is readily available to those taxpaying funders.
This OA breakthrough came relatively soon after Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) unanimously approved a measure that will deposit all scholarly papers produced by members of the FAS in an open access repository produced and maintained by Harvard. This move represents simply another victory for the OA movement. The professors at FAS hope that other centers of higher learning will follow in the OA path.
These recent advancements reflect the inexorable trend toward OA that has permeated the scientific community. With the increasing availability of research to all, it seems that the resulting increased academic exchange and discussion will accelerate the process.
Nathan
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