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NIH Public Access Policy
Beginning April 7, The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
required that all manuscripts based on NIH-funded research be submitted to
PubMed Central when they are accepted for publication. A number of journals
will submit the articles directly (see the
list of
journals). The process for submitting articles accepted by other
journals is outlined on the NIH Web site describing the
Public Access Policy. The site
also includes answers to frequently asked questions. By May 25, proposals
and other documents submitted to NIH must include the PubMed Central
reference number for the authors’ articles that are cited. The policy
implements a section of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008. Its
goal is to make research results readily available to the public. MSU researchers
wanting help to resolve copyright and other
questions related to meeting the requirement can contact
Contract and Grant
Administration (355-5040), the Office of Research Facilitation
(432-4499), MSU Technologies (355-2186),
or the Office of the General Counsel (353-3530).
SPG update
A dozen full proposals were invited for submission in
the Strategic Partnership Grants (SPG) competition this year. The Council of
Research Deans (CORD) recommended their selection after reviewing the 40
preproposals submitted earlier this year. Full proposals were due April 10.
Decisions will be made and funds awarded by July 1.
NRC program assessment update
The National Research Council (NRC) now plans to
release data and ratings in its assessment of doctoral programs in early
fall. Meanwhile, the agency is working on data cleaning with a set of
universities that had submitted incomplete data. News about
NRC
ratings and rankings is available on the NRC Web.
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21st Century Jobs Fund
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC)
has posted a draft RFP for the 2008 21st Century Jobs Fund competition. As
proposed, the competition is open only to for-profit companies meeting
specified criteria. A university collaboration, however, will strengthen a
company’s proposal. More information is available at the
RFPs and
Funding Opportunities blog.
Research in the news
MSU research appears regularly in local, national, and
international media, and University Relations tracks those mentions. To
subscribe to a
daily e-mail report of media citations of MSU research and other
activities, go to . The report also includes links to articles about higher
education.
New online
The
MSUGrant
e-mail list maintained by librarian Jon Harrison for more than a
decade has been replaced by a blog. Individuals can subscribe to RSS feeds
to be notified of updates. Harrison’s Web,
Grants and
Related Resources, remains available with links to funding agencies and
other information.
New
requests
for proposals related to the environment are regularly posted on a
funding page on the Environmental Science and Policy Program (ESPP) Web.
The Office of
Research in the College of Human Medicine has redesigned its Web to
offer links to funding sources, information about conducting research at MSU,
and more. The office also produces a research newsletter, available as
a PDF at the site. |