A rule that takes effect this week requires researchers who publish NIH-funded work to post their results in a free, publicly accessible database within one year, NPR's "Talk of the Nation" reports.
The law states that researchers who receive funding from the agency must submit "an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts" for publication in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central database.
In the second hour of Friday's program, "Talk of the Nation" was scheduled to include a discussion about the law with Harold Varmus, a former NIH director and co-founder of the Public Library of Science, an open-access scientific journal ("Talk of the Nation" Web site, 4/11).