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    Date:  Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:22:05 +0900
    From:  uchijima ＠ ad.kanazawa-u.ac.jp (内島秀樹)
    Subject:  [drf 0893] NIHの義務化法案

    みなさま

    　金沢大の内島です。

    　アメリカのNIH（National Institute of Healte）が助成金による公的研究をオンライン
    公開することをrequireする法案が上院予算委員会で提案されたようです。NIHのWGの中では
    義務化すべきことが推奨されていたようですが、ようやく第一歩を踏み出したことになるわ
    けです。投票までに出版社側の激しいロビー活動があるのでしょうか？

    　ちなみにNIHの2005年の予算は、280億ドルで、月産5500程度の査読済論文がこの法案によ
    りカバーされるそうです。現在は、requireではなくrecommendなので全体の数％しかアーカ
    イブされておらず改善が必要と考えられていたものです。

    　NIHのグラントについては下記のサイトが参考になります。日本からも多くの研究者が訪れ
    ているようですが、助成金はどの程度受けているのでしょうか？（ほとんどいないという噂
    も聞きます）

    　http://www.kenkyuu.net/guide-6-05.html

    　なお、このサイトにお茶の水女子大の白楽ロックビル先生（生物学者）のNIHリポートが参
    考文献としてあがっています。

    ここから、SPARCからのメール
    Jennifer McLennan さんのコメントを転送します:
    ___________________________________

    Alliance for Taxpayer Access
    www.taxpayeraccess.org

    For immediate release
    June 28, 2007

    Contact:
    Jennifer McLennan
    jennifer [at] arl [dot] org
    (202) 296-2296 ext. 121

    CONGRESSIONAL PANEL FAVORS ACCESS
    TO PUBLICLY FUNDED RESEARCH

    Washington, D.C. - June 28, 2007 - Public access to NIH-funded research took a major step forward this week with Senate
    Appropriations Committee agreement to direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require that its funded research
    be made publicly available on the Internet.

    This milestone was immediately praised by the Alliance for Taxpayer Access (ATA), a coalition of patient groups,
    researchers, consumers, and libraries that has long called for such a step.

    "The momentum is real and Congress understands the public's interest," said Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC
    and Arlen Specter for their bipartisan leadership on this issue."

    "It is significant that Senate appropriators are determined to leverage the taxpayer investment in research by ensuring
    it can be broadly applied," added Joseph. "Two years after the well-intentioned voluntary NIH policy was introduced, too
    many researchers, students, small businesses, and people facing diseases still lack access to the publicly funded
    research they want and need. This is a big step in the right direction."

    The Senate's 2008 appropriations bill specifically requires that NIH-funded researchers deposit in the National Library
    of Medicine's online archive an electronic copy of their peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication in a
    journal. Articles would become publicly available no later than 12 months after publication.

    "Action by our Senators in supporting this change is especially welcomed by the patient community," said Colleen Zak,
    Executive Director of the Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease and Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis (ARPKD/CHF)
    Alliance. "Delivering on the NIH public access policy will create anticipated opportunities for accelerating research and
    finding cures."

    Under the current NIH Public Access Policy, implemented in May 2005, investigators have deposited less than five percent
    of eligible manuscripts and, although a few publishers have also deposited articles stemming from NIH-funded research,
    the vast majority is not yet publicly available.

    Congress has expressed concern about the voluntary policy's failure to meet its goals. However, this is the first time
    the Senate committee has proposed legislative action to correct the situation. The Senate measure is similar to one
    recently put forth by the House of Representatives Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittee.

    The FY08 Senate Appropriations Bill is expected to go before the full Senate for a vote later this summer. The House
    Labor/HHS Appropriations measure will be considered by the full House Appropriations Committee in July.

    # # #

    The Alliance for Taxpayer Access is a coalition of patient, academic, research, and publishing organizations that support
    open public access to the results of federally funded research. The Alliance was formed in 2004 to urge that peer-
    reviewed articles stemming from taxpayer-funded research become fully accessible and available online at no extra cost to
    the American public. Details on the ATA may be found at http://www.taxpayeraccess.org.

    ___________________________________

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