The World Intellectual Property Organization recently issued a guide titled “Understanding Copyright and Related Rights.” The guide is intended to “provide an introduction for non-specialists or newcomers to the subject of copyright and related rights.”

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Have a question about the NIH Public Access Policy? Check the following resources:
NIH FAQs related to the NIH Public Access Policy. 
WU FAQs related to the NIH Public Access Policy.
 

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There are about 350 journals that have worked out an agreement with NIH and PubMed Central (PMC) to deposit NIH-funded publications to PMC on behalf of NIH-funded authors. According to NIH, no further action is required by authors who publish in one of these journals in order to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy except to cite [...]

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Norka Ruiz Bravo, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research, recently sent an email to NIH principal investigators reminding them of the NIH Public Access Policy. One part of the email that may be of interest:
“If you publish through a journal listed under http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm, there might be a slight delay in assignment of a PMCID. That is [...]

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