NIH Public Access Policy
This Policy implements a provision in the 2008 federal appropriations act which requires that all NIH investigators “submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central (PMC), an electronic version of their peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication … in a manner consistent with copyright law.” This policy became effective April 7, 2008, but applies to articles arising from grants and cooperative agreements active from October 1, 2007.
It is the responsibility of the Principal Investigator and the University to ensure compliance with this policy. Compliance involves the following areas: