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NIH Public Access Policy Compliance

How to Comply with the NIH Public Access Policy (NIHPA)

All peer-reviewed journal articles arising from NIH funds (whole or in part) accepted for publication after April 7, 2008, must be submitted to PubMed Central (PMC) upon acceptance and made publicly available no more than 12 months after appearing in a journal.

• What papers need to be submitted?   
• Four Submission Methods  
• List of Journals that Submit All Final Funded Articles
  This is a list of the journals that fulfill Submission Method A by depositing all NIH-funded final published articles in PubMed Central without author involvement.   
• NIH Manuscript Submission System Login
  Author deposits and submission approvals are completed using this system. 
• NIH Manuscript Submission System Help
  Includes FAQ and step by step slides.  
• Submitting an Article to PubMed Central
  A 12 minute step-by-step video.  
• Other Select publisher policies
  A list of links to the website of major publisher NIHPA policies.  
• FAQ’s

 

Demonstrating Compliance

NIH grantees need to demonstrate compliance with the Public Access Policy when submitting an application, proposal, or progress report to the NIH. Grantees should include the PubMed Central (PMC) reference number for each paper that was accepted for publication after April 7, 2008 and was authored or co-authored by the applicant or arose from their NIH award. 

• How to find PMCID   
• Include PMCID in Citations
  How to cite and examples of citations. 
• PMID : PMCID Converter
  Given a set of PubMed IDs (PMIDs) you can use this converter to obtain the corresponding PMCIDs and/or NIHMS IDs if they exist. 
• Manage Compliance with My Bibliography  

For more information contact the Carpenter Library at 713-7100.