National Institutes of Health Revises Policy for Enhancing Public Access

Effective April 7, 2008 for all Active NIH Grants

To encourage open access to information the NIH Public Access Policy requires that all investigations funded by NIH, or from NIH staff, that are accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008 submit an electronic version of the final peer reviewed manuscript to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central.

Institutions and Investigators are responsible for ensuring that any publishing or copyright agreements concerning submitted articles fully comply with this Policy.
PubMed Central (PMC) is the NIH digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed journal articles. Its content is publicly accessible and integrated with other databases.
The final, peer-reviewed manuscript includes all graphics and supplemental materials that are associated with the article.
Beginning May 25, 2008, anyone submitting an application, proposal or progress report to the NIH must include the PMC or NIH Manuscript Submission Reference Number when citing applicable articles that arise from their NIH funded research. This policy includes applications submitted to the NIH for the May 25, 2008 due date and subsequent due dates.

Failure to comply with this policy may jeopardize an Investigator’s future NIH funding.

The following links will provide more information on the open and public access issues and details concerning the initiation of this new NIH Policy:

http://uflib-copyright.blogspot.com/;

http://www.library.health.ufl.edu/pub/Publishing/index.htm;

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ ; or

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/databases.html (Featured Database).