The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced that, 
beginning January 1, 2008, it will require its scientists 
to publish their original research articles in scientific 
journals that allow the articles and supplementary 
materials to be made freely accessible in a public 
repository within six months of publication. This applies to
investigators and scientists at the Janelia Farm Research 
Campus who are employees of the Institute (not grantees) 
and represent the bulk of the scientific activity.

HHMI had already reached an agreement with Elsevier that 
brought Cell Press and Elsevier journals into compliance 
with the new policy. Recently, HHMI has signed an agreement 
with John Wiley & Sons. Beginning with manuscripts 
submitted October 1, Wiley will arrange for the upload of 
author manuscripts of original research articles, along 
with supplemental data, on which any HHMI scientist is an 
author to PMC. The author manuscript has been through the 
peer review process and accepted for publication, but has 
not undergone editing and formatting. HHMI will pay Wiley a 
fee for each uploaded article.