Submitted by Daniel (not verified) on Sun, 2008-05-25 20:57.

A key provision of the bill is that researchers must "deposit immediately upon acceptance in a peer reviewed journal", not "during or after the 12-month embargo period. Immediate deposit allows immediate release of metadata, enhancing the article's visibility, and allows the NIH to switch the article from closed to open access, automatically, as soon as the embargo runs."

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