On 9/10/06, elw@stderr.org <elw@stderr.org> wrote:
The NIH tried that, or has tried, is trying to do that, and has had [to best of my knowledge so far - maybe they got somewhere by now?] a very difficult time 'requiring' that it happen.
According to a report submitted to Congress in January, "The rate of submission to the NIHMS system in the fIrst 8 months has been less than 4 percent of the total number of articles estimated to be eligible." The full report (only 10 pages) can be found at http://publicaccess.nih.gov/Final_Report_20060201.pdf.
Lots of info about this over at peter suber's blog.
The Association of Research Libraries also has some good information about the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (S.2695) at http://www.arl.org/info/frn/other/access/. Kevin