This is a simplified presentation of research presented at the UC Berkeley McNair Symposium in Fall of 2012.

1. *
Presented by: Angelica Tavella
Advisor: Paul Duguid
UC Berkeley
McNair Symposium 2012

2. April 8, 2008: The Consolidated
Appropriations Act is passed, which
requires all Scientific and Medical
research funded by the National
Institute of Health to be made freely
available online within 1 year of
publication.

3. How has the NIH
Public Access
mandate effected
publishing policy and
created more
openness of
scientific and

4. But what IS
Public Access?
What is a
National
Institute of
Health?
What does one mean by
“open”?

5. PUBLIC ACCESS:
-Electronic version of peer-reviewed artic
-Within 12 months of original publication
-As long as it is consistent with Copyrigh
OPEN ACCESS:
-Freely and immediately available
online
-Available to read, download, copy,
distribute, print, search, and use data.

6. National Institute of Health
-Agency of the US Department of Health
and Human Services.
-Largest funder of Biomedical and health
related research.
-27 Institutions and Centers
-Funded over $30,000 million of research in
2011.

7. 1.Accessibility:
Having free, immediate,
unrestricted access to
digital materials
2.Responsiveness:
Full, non-commercial rights
to use a work without
restriction other than
requiring attribution to
the author.
The White Album- The Beatles
The Grey Album- DJ Danger Mouse

8. -2 Categories:
Pediatrics- $3,927 million of NIH funding in 2
Biomedical Engineering- $3,303 of NIH
-5 Publishers:
-Wiley-Blackwell, Springer, Elsevier
-Two top Society publishers
-Subjects: 10 Journals
Procedure:
-Quantitative: Data collected from
PubMed Central
-Qualitative: Analysis of publisher’s
Copyright Transfer Agreement and
Open Access Options.

9. % of Articles Available on PubMed Central
0
5
10
15
20
25
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
%OnPMC
Year
% Available on PMC- Biomedical
Engineering
Biomechanics and
Modeling in
Mechanobiology
Biomedical Materials
Biomaterials
Acta Biomaterials
Journal OF Biomedical
Materials Research
PartA
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
%onPMC
% Available on PMC -Pediatrics
Developmental
Medicine And Child
Neurology
Archives of
Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Journal of
Pediatrics
Journal of
Adolescent Health

10. 23
9
10
12 12
30
27
18
13
12
8
28
11 11
12
11
23
17
14
13 13
11
33
16
13
12
10
11
21
32
19
25
12
66
0
6
8
11
8
32
15
24
13
15
12
14
18
21
11
13
12
27
24
20
14
12 12
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Average Embargo Period (all journals)
Developmental Med. And Child
Neurology(Wiley)
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent
Medicine(AMA)
Pediatrics(AAP)
Journal of Pediatrics(Elsevier)
Journal of Adolescent Health(Elsevier)
Biomechanics and Modeling in
Mechanobiology(Springer)
Biomedical Microdevices(Springer)
Biomaterials(Elsevier)
Acta Biomaterials(Elsevier)
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS
RESEARCH PART A (Wiley)

11. Policy Makers/Gov’t/Funding
Research, Development, Id
Public
Access
Mandate
Publishers
Future Innovators
Where Is the Roadblock?
Who Holds The Key?

12. Suggestions
-Policy should have a shortened embargo period.
-Commercial Publishers should have Gold Open Access models.
-However Industry, Institutions, and Bureaucracy are hard to sway.
-We as scholars, scientists, and knowledge
producers need to take initiative to make
our works more open.

13. Acknowledgements
Thanks to the great faculty support:
Paul Duguid (mentor)
Margaret Phillips
Michael Eisen
And of course:
The McNair Staff
Jordan Gonzales
The girls…Abiola, Amira, Sarah, Sandrita, and Wanda!
And of course the entire McNair cohort