Comments to the NIH

Submitted by:  Dr. Ray English, Chair, SPARC Steering Committee, Azariah Smith Root Director of Libraries, Oberlin College

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is very pleased that the revised National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy is moving toward timely implementation. We strongly believe that effective, immediate implementation of this policy will greatly improve the ability of researchers to access, share, and use the results of the critical biomedical research funded by your agency...