Public Access Mandate Entering United States Laws Somewhat

The blog of the Detroit Area Library Network (“DALNET”) highlighted a news brief that a mandatory deposit requirement for National Institutes of Health funded researchers has entered into law. The mandatory deposit requirement for PubMedCentral was enacted as part of the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008. The DALNET consortium blog pointed the way to the NIH public access mandate page so that interested folk can learn about implementation of this.