Title: New government requirement for public access to NIH-funded research articles

Link: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm
Description:

On January 11, the National Institutes of Health announced its Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research, placing a new reporting requirement on NIH-funded researchers taking effect on April 7, 2008. The final, peer-reviewed manuscripts of all articles arising from NIH-funded research which are accepted for publication on or after April 7th will need be submitted to PubMed Central, NIH's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, where they will be freely accessible to all so that they might better advance science and improve health.

There are three components to the requirement: retaining key rights, depositing your article to NIH, and citing your article.

Title: NIH Public Access: News & Updates, Help

Link: http://www.nihms.nih.gov/
Description: This page includes features News & Updates regarding the National Institutes of Health Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS). It also includes links to various pages regarding the NIHMS, including the following:

• NIHMS FAQ
• Publisher FAQ
• Contact information for the Help Desk
• Log in access to the NIHMS System to submit a manuscript
  
• Grants Lookup Tool for the NIHMS grant database
  
• NIHMS submission statistics

Title: NIH Public Access Help Slides

Link: http://www.nihms.nih.gov/web-help/index.html
Description: This page offers a set of online tutorials regarding the National Institutes of Health Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS). The NIHMS System Slide Shows demonstrate how to perform various actions in a step-by-step fashion and are illustrated with screen captures. There are three versions available for each help topic: a hyperlinked HTML display, a QuickTime movie, and a PDF file.

Tutorials are available on the following topics:

• Submission Help for Principle Investigators
• Login Help
• Submission Help for Non-PI Submitters
• Miscellaneous Help Items

Title: NIH Public Access Homepage

Link: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
Description: The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit journal articles that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/). The Policy requires that these articles be accessible to the public on PubMed Central to help advance science and improve human health.

This overview of the NIH Public Access Policy includes general guidelines regarding copyright, article submission, article citation, important dates, and the text of Division G, Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008).

Title: NCCAM Clinical Trials

Link: http://nccam.nih.gov/clinicaltrials/
Description: Clinical trials are medical research studies designed to answer specific questions about new therapies, procedures, or treatments, by testing them in people. This carefully conducted research helps to determine if the therapy is safe and effective.

Title: CDC WONDER

Link: http://wonder.cdc.gov/
Description: "Wide-ranging OnLine Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) -- is an easy-to-use internet system that makes the information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) available to public health professionals and the public at large. It provides access to a wide array of public health information."

Title: Institutes, Centers

Link: http://www.nih.gov/icd/
Description: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.

Title: Office of Rare Diseases

Link: http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/
Description: "The Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) was established in 1993 within the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). On November 6, 2002, the President established the Office in statute (Public Law 107-280, the Rare Diseases Act of 2002). A rare disease (also called an orphan disease) is a disease or condition affecting fewer than 200,000 persons in the United States. An estimated 25 million people in the United States have a rare disease."

Title: United States Patent and Trademark Office Home Page

Link: http://www.uspto.gov/
Description: The USPTO is a federal agency in the Department of Commerce, charged, "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries" (Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution).

Title: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Link: http://www.cdc.gov/
Description: "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the principal agency in the United States government for protecting the health and safety of all Americans and for providing essential human services, especially for those people who are least able to help themselves."