For immediate release:
September 30, 2008

For more information, contact:
Kaylyn Groves
Association of Research Libraries
kaylyn@arl.org

Author Rights under NIH Public Access Policy Highlighted in ARL Bimonthly Report

Washington DC—Author rights affected by the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy are featured in the latest issue of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Bimonthly Report, no. 259.

In the lead article, Ben Grillot, MLS (Maryland 2002), second-year student at the George Washington University Law School, and summer intern for ARL, compares how the agreements of 12 publishers permit authors to meet the requirements of the new NIH policy and share their works while they are under embargo. Grillot's analysis of these 12 agreements will help authors determine what to look for in an agreement and what questions to ask before signing.

Additionally, ARL Statistics Liaison Les Bland reviews the results of the most recent ARL Annual Salary Survey. The survey shows, among other findings, that ARL librarians' salaries surpassed inflation for the fourth consecutive year.

Brief summaries are also provided of ARL's new Career Enhancement Program for minority MLS Students (application deadline October 1, 2008) and the well-attended Library Assessment Conference held in Seattle, August 4-7, 2008.

This issue of the Bimonthly Report is in the mail to ARL member libraries and subscribers this week.

The issue is also freely available on the Web at http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br259.shtml.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.