Journals Now on PubMed Central

In order to fulfill the National Institutes of Health's Public Access Policy mandate (see below), Comparative Medicine (CM) and the Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (JAALAS) are now available on the PubMed Central website. This is another service the editorial office will be providing to the authors free of charge. The articles of all authors published in either journal will be made available to the general public in the PubMed Central website at the end of their embargo, that is, 6 months after publication. All articles published in 2008 and January JAALAS are already available:

JAALAS: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=817

Comparative Medicine: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=833

"The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. To help advance science and improve human health, the Policy requires that these papers are accessible to the public on PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication." (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/)