摘要：On April 7, 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) instituted the NIH public access policy implementing division G, title II, section 218 of Public Law 110–161 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008) and affecting all peer-reviewed research funded through its grants [ 1 ]. Researchers receiving such funding are required to place “an electronic version of their final peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication” into “the digital archive PubMed Central,” thus making them freely available [ 1 ].
