The provision directs the NIH to change its existing Public Access Policy, implemented as a voluntary measure in 2005, so that participation is required for agency-funded investigators. Researchers will now be required to deposit electronic copies of their peer-reviewed manuscripts into the National Library of Medicine’s online archive, PubMed Central. Full texts of the articles will be publicly available and searchable online in PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication in a journal.

Esta nueva política fortalecerá significativamente  el movimiento de acceso abierto en los Estados Unidos. Y ahora hay que comenzar a educar a los investigadores para que conozcan sus responsabilidades y cumplan con las mismas a plenitud.