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Currently journals voluntarily provide the National Institutes of Health and its PubMed Central repository with articles
reporting on federally funded research. The Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine (PRISM) fully
supports this NIH program and its member publishers have worked actively to increase the rate at which articles are
deposited into its archive.
Undue government intervention in scholarly publishing is not only unnecessary; it also puts at risk the system of
scientific publishing that serves the millions of researchers, academicians, clinicians and others who generate and
benefit from the end result of scholarly research:
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- Changes to the current NIH Public Access Policy would undermine the
peer review process that ensures the quality and accuracy of scientific
research.
- Changes to the current NIH Public Access Policy would
undercut the progress that publishers and NIH are already making to
successfully implement that policy.
- Publishers make value-added contributions to scholarly journal articles.
- Changing the policy at this juncture is premature.
- A change in policy will cost NIH more money.
Click here to learn more about the risks inherent in changing the NIH policy from voluntary to mandatory.
As colonial publisher Thomas Paine observed on the eve of the American
Revolution, "That government is best which governs least." Paine's
observations are as true today as they were in the 18th Century.
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