Researchers are submitting skyrocketing numbers of manuscripts for processing by PubMed Central, the freely accessible repository of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubMed has received an average of 8,800 manuscripts per month this year, up from 5,100 per month in 2011 and 2012. Last November, the NIH said that, from spring 2013, it would more rigorously enforce its policy of requiring NIH-funded research to be freely accessible to the public within 12 months of publication.
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