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UC Comments in Response to NIH's RFI on the NIH Draft Public Access Policy

Abstract

This comment letter responds the NIH's RFI on their Draft Public Access Policy, issued on June 18, 2024. UC strongly supports NIH’s Draft Public Access Policy and supplemental guidance, especially the government use license language allowing broad reuse and derivative works, and urges HHS/NIH to harmonize this approach with federal grant regulations to support consistent zero-embargo access. UC also asks NIH to clarify and support publication-cost planning, preserve PubMed Central as a no-cost deposit route, create a mechanism for post-award publication costs, and work with universities and publishers to automate multi-repository deposits to reduce administrative burden and compliance risk.


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