THE NIH PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY IMPACT

Covers the NIH Public Access Policy and also some interesting facts PMC

• Over 2.4 million articles are now in PMC. In addition to the NIH‐funded papers deposited into PMC, publishers voluntarily deposit more than 100,000 papers per year.
• Every weekday, one half million users access the database, retrieving over 1 million articles.
• Based on internet addresses, an estimated 25% of users are from universities, 17% are from companies, and 40% from the general public

http://publicaccess.nih.gov/public_access_policy_implications_2012.pdf