1. NIH Mandate One Year On: How Are Libraries Responding?
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Wm. Joseph Thomas and Lisa Blackwell
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Public access ,business.industry ,Political science ,Mandate ,Library and Information Sciences ,Public administration ,Public relations ,Affect (psychology) ,business ,Scholarly communication ,humanities ,health care economics and organizations - Abstract
Signed into law in January 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy went into effect March 19, 2009. This law has the potential to affect significantly the activities of librarians, researchers, and publishers. In an effort to assess the impact, Joseph Thomas of East Carolina University studied how academic libraries are responding to the new mandate and whether the librarians perceived a correlation between their activities in response to the mandate and the growth of institutional repositories.
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- 2010
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