42 U.S.C. § 282c

Current through P.L. 118-47 (published on www.congress.gov on 03/23/2024)

Section 282c - Public access to funded investigators' final manuscripts

The Director of the National Institutes of Health ("NIH") shall require in the current fiscal year and thereafter that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central 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: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.

42 U.S.C. § 282c

Pub. L. 111-8, div. F, title II, §217, Mar. 11, 2009, 123 Stat. 782.

EDITORIAL NOTES

CODIFICATIONSection was enacted as part of the Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2009, and also as part of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009, and the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

Service

The term "Service" means the Public Health Service;