National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy

What Is the NIH Public Access Policy?

The NIH Public Access Policy requires researchers with NIH funding to submit journal articles resulting from those funds to PubMed Central, a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Who Does It Affect?

You must submit published materials resulting from NIH funding if your work fits in one of the following four categories:

• Directly funded by an NIH grant or cooperative agreement active in Fiscal Year 2008 (October 1, 2007- September 30, 2008) or beyond;
• Directly funded by a contract signed on or after April 7, 2008;
• Directly funded by the NIH Intramural Program.
• If NIH pays your salary.

What kind of services does the library offer faculty affected by the policy?

• We answer questions related to the NIH Public Access Policy and how to comply.
• We offer NIH Public Acccess Policy informational sessions to departments, research groups, and individual faculty.
• We deposit manuscripts in PubMed Central and SMARTech on behalf of authors.
• We provide hands-on PubMed Central submission training.
• We suggest tools that help researchers retain rights to deposit in repositories like PubMed Central.
  
  For assistance with any of the above, please email:

For more information about the policy and how to comply, please see NIH Public Access Policy.