UPDATED NIH PUBLIC ACCESS POLICYHealth Sciences Library staff

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NIH UPDATED PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY

The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication

NIH UPDATED PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY

Went into effect on April 7, 2008 Previous policy - voluntary to submit to

PubMed Central Applies to any peer-reviewed journal article

where research was funded by NIH Even if the PI isn’t an author

Three steps to compliance

STEP 1 – ADDRESS COPYRIGHT

Author is responsible for addressing copyright. Address at time of submission of article Make sure that author has permission to deposit in

PubMed Central Some journals will submit to PubMed Central

for you - easiest Some journals will submit to PubMed Central

for you, but you must pay a fee Some journals won’t submit to PubMed

Central and you will have to submit on your own

STEP 2 – SUBMIT ARTICLE

Submit final peer-reviewed article, with graphics and supplemental material Submit your word doc and images, not the proof

from the publisher If journal will submit for you, nothing for you

to do (easy!) If you need to do submission, use the

NIH Manuscript Submission System (also easy!)

STEP 3 – CITE ARTICLE

Every article in PubMed Central has a unique PubMed Central ID (PMCID)

Starting May 25, 2008: When submitting NIH applications, proposals, or

progress reports, you must include the PMCID for each of your NIH-funded articles

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