Scholarly Communication Brown Bag*
Thursday, November 20, 2008

11:30 am till 1:00 pm

Fondren Library, Rice University
Kyle Morrow Room, 3^rd Floor  (map at http://www.rice.edu/maps/colormap.pdf)

Speaker: *Michelle Malizia, MA, Associate Director*, National Network of Libraries of Medicine South Central Region

Topic: *The NIH Public Access Policy*

As of April 7, 2008, all Principal Investigators funded by NIH are required to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy. In part, this policy mandates that that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts.

This presentation provides an overview of the policy, including an explanation of the reason behind the policy and a brief description of the steps needed to maintain compliance.

Lunch for the first 25 attendees will be free, first come, first served.

Sponsored by the HAM-TMC Library/Fondren Library, Rice University Scholarly Communication Team.

Please alert your friends and colleagues to this great opportunity to learn more about the new NIH Policy!

For more information about the event, please contact Debra Kolah (dkolah@rice.edu, x2350)

For more information about the NIH policy :http://library.rice.edu/nih