It’s a great thing, but I wish theyd iron some of the bugs out. My NIH continuation funding got held up because one of the articles I published (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6106a1.htm, first article) from funded work was in the CDC’s Morbitity and Mortality Weekly (MMWR), a journal which has always been completely public access, but which isn’t deposited in Pubmed Central. And technically the CDC is the ‘author’ of MMWR (actual authors are listed at the end of the article as “Reported by: name, name”), so there’s no way for an author to initiate the process of having a paper deposited in Pubmed Central… Anyway, it took me weeks of phonecalls to sort that one out…
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