Coming Soon: The New NIH Public Access Policy

Since 2008, the NIH Public Access Policy mandates that peer-reviewed articles resulting from NIH funding must be freely available in PubMed Central (PMC) within 12 months of publication. Changes to the NIH Public Access Policy have been brewing for the last couple years after the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued their memo “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.” You can read more about the OSTP memo through the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

In response to the OSTP memo, the NIH released their new 2024 NIH Public Access Policy that will apply to articles accepted for publication on or after December 31, 2025. Perhaps the biggest takeaway of the new policy is that it removes the current 12-month embargo period, requiring authors to make their NIH-funded articles available in PMC as soon as their work is published.

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Learn @ HSLS: Open Scholarship and Research Impact Challenge

Enjoy this series of online, self-paced modules at a time and place that works best for you.
Access the Open Scholarship and Research Impact Challenge*

Each year, the week of Valentine’s Day is designated as International Love Data Week. To “celebrate,” complete one of these HSLS self-paced learning modules and share out your earned badge on social media using #LoveData25.

The Open Scholarship and Research Impact Challenge is a series of asynchronous, self-paced learning modules on Canvas. These modules include a wide range of opportunities and activities that will give you the practical tools to make your research more accessible and impactful, more reproducible, more connected to the public welfare, and more in line with your personal values.

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Changes to the HSLS Online Collection for 2025

For 2025, HSLS gained access to around two dozen journals that were formerly published by IOS Press and that are now included in our SAGE journal package (a sample of the new titles is included below). HSLS also continually adds new open access journals from numerous publishers. Visit our E-journals A-Z list and click on “Show Select Subject” to view more titles in your area of interest. New ebooks have also been added to our collection, while some resources will no longer be available in 2025.

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Happening at Falk Library in February

Visitors to Falk Library, located in Alan Magee Scaife Hall, are encouraged to check out these opportunities and displays:

Therapy Dog Visit

Thursday, February 6, 1-2 p.m.

Cure your winter blues with a visit from Blue the therapy dog! Our favorite golden retriever will be greeting visitors at the library’s entrance on Thursday, February 6, from 1 to 2 p.m. After saying hi to Blue, stop by the Main Desk for some hot chocolate!

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Treasures from the Rare Book Room: De arte gymnastica (Venice, 1587)

An book lying open on a table. The left page features an engraved image of men posed as if boxing in an arena with ancient Greek or Roman columns and statues. The page on the right is an illustration of three fists, each wrapped with strips of leather or fabric as boxing gloves. Image links to a larger version of the image.
Falk Library’s edition of De arte gymnastica features these plates depicting boxing

The art of exercising for health, which ancient Greeks and Romans cherished so much, was lost in the Middle Ages. The Renaissance authors brought that ancient practice back. Rediscovering the works of Hippocrates and Galen allowed them to research and re-evaluate the forgotten concepts of hygiene and health anew. One of those authors was Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1603), an Italian physician from Forli. He was a prolific author and left as his legacy several interesting works. However, the one that earned him the appointment as professor of practical medicine at the University of Padua was his study of gymnastics in the ancient world, published in 1569. The illustrated second edition of this work appeared in Venice in 1573, followed by the third in 1587 as “De arte gymnastica” (On the art of gymnastics). The latter was recently acquired by our library. It will strengthen our collection of books supporting research into the history of health and rehabilitation science.

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HSLS Staff News

The HSLS Staff News section includes recent HSLS presentations, publications, staff changes, staff promotions, degrees earned, and more.

Publication

Michele Klein Fedyshin, Research and Clinical Instruction Librarian, co-authored the article:

Hutchinson RN, Chiu EJ, Belin SC, Klein-Fedyshin M, Impagliazzo CR, Costanza L, Passarelli J, Patel PP, Sahay S, Shen A, Razskazovskiy V, Schenker Y. How is Telehealth Used to Increase Access to Specialty Palliative Care? A Systematic Review. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2025 Jan 2:S0885-3924(24)01227-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.12.017. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39755286.