Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học Journal of Biology đề tài: Following an overwhelming vote by the US House of Representatives urging the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an Open Access strategy. | J. Biol. Journal of Biology 2 BioMed Central Editorial Published 20 October 2004 Journal of Biology 2004 3 12 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http content 3 4 12 2004 BioMed Central Ltd Following an overwhelming vote by the US House of Representatives urging the National Institutes of Health NIH to develop an Open Access strategy the NIH has recently invited comment on its plans to enhance access to the research that it funds. Under the proposed scheme NIH-funded researchers would have to provide electronic copies of the final accepted versions of each of their manuscripts for archiving along with any supplementary information in PubMed Central http www. pub m edcentral. . Six months after publication of the research in question - or sooner if the publisher agrees - the provisional copies would be made publicly available at no charge to readers. Journal of Biology heartily supports the NIH proposal which brings us one step closer to the immediate availability of all peer-reviewed research free of charge. Indeed as Open Access pioneers BioMed Central and Journal of Biology already provide PubMed Central with final full text and PDF versions of all published research articles immediately and we encourage all publishers to follow suit. In an ideal future the electronic version of each research article would be the final and definitive form -easily archived centrally searchable and available at the click of a mouse to all who would read it be they scientists or members of the public. Of course print would still play an important role but printed articles will no longer constitute the historic record of the work. And moving away from the printed article in favor of its online incarnation makes sense for other reasons too electronically researchers can display all relevant data instead of an edited subset and moving images and other web-only formats can be easily integrated. It will no longer be .
