OPEN ON-LINE ACCESS TO PUBLICATIONS: CIHR and NIH POLICIES and MANAGEMENT
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have recently posted policies mandating open online access to all published results of research funded by these agencies. For further information about the policies, please see:
HOW TO MEET PUBLIC ACCESS REQUIREMENTS
The University of Toronto showcases and preserves scholarly work of its research community through T-SPACE at the U of T Library. T-SPACE is a free, secure and permanent repository and will meet CIHR ‘s requirement, offering worldwide access to the broad spectrum of the U of T community’s scholarship. CIHR allows that its public access requirement may be met in a number of ways, including through submission to journals that offer immediate open access or permit an author to archive peer-reviewed manuscripts in a central or institutional repository within 6 months of publication. However, because T-SPACE not only allows faculty to adhere to CIHR’s policy respecting open access to publications, but also increases the visibility and research impact of posted publications – and provides usage statistics, the Faculty of Medicine requests that all members of our research community post all accepted publications in this repository
The University Library is also working on the creation of a Faculty of Medicine Community within T-SPACE, to further increase the visibility of our research accomplishments and make the search for potential collaborators and research partners within our institution and its affiliates faster and easier.
While NIH requires the use of its PubMed Central database for compliance with its public access policy, future plans for T-SPACE include making it fully compliant with NIH public access policy through linkage to PubMed Central International, currently under development.
IT’S THIS SIMPLE…
To help with the task of posting to T-SPACE, the Faculty has created this easy plan: simply CLICK HERE, complete the form and submit. Your publication will be added to the U of T repository, and you will receive a ticket number to verify and track the process.
Please do note, to be fully compliant with CIHR’s policy, investigators generating bioinformatic, atomic or molecular coordinate data must post these to an appropriate public database or archive as listed in the policy’s ANNEX.
Note that NIH requires that you use its PubMed Central database for compliance with its public access policy. One final note: To assure that posting of publications is in accordance with publisher policies, investigators may use the SHERPA/RoMEO database to locate summaries of publisher copyright policies. The SHERPA/RoMEO database will help grant recipients determine which journals allow authors to retain copyright and/or allow authors to archive journal publications in accordance with funding agency policies. Investigators may change the copyright agreements with publishers to meet CIHR and/or NIH policies by using the Author Addendum created by SPARC/CARL (http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/author/author-e.html), or one created for Science Commons. Both are freely available to facilitate communication with publishers.
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