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SUBMITTER: Peterson AT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6808382 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Peterson A Townsend AT Johnson Paul E PE Barve Narayani N Emmett Ada A Greenberg Marc L ML Bolick Josh J Qiao Huijie H
PLoS biology 20191023 10
The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) imposed a public access policy on all publications for which the research was supported by their grants; the policy was drafted in 2004 and took effect in 2008. The policy is now 11 years old, yet no analysis has been presented to assess whether in fact this largest-scale US-based public access policy affected the vitality of the scholarly publishing enterprise, as manifested in changed mortality or natality rates of biomedical journals. We s ...[more]