ATTN: All NIH-funded Researchers
Upcoming Changes to Public Access Policy Reporting Requirements & Related NIH Efforts to Enhance Compliance
Since 2008, compliance with the NIH public access policy has been a statutory requirement, and a term and condition of all grant awards and cooperative agreements. This policy requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central (PMC) upon acceptance for publication. Over the past five years, increasingly effective methods have been developed to track and report compliance with the public access policy.
NIH recently announced that, effective July 1, 2013, processing of non-competing continuation grant awards will be delayed if publications arising from that award are not in compliance with the NIH public access policy. Therefore, it is the responsibility of every NIH-funded researcher at the University of Pittsburgh to ensure that all research publications arising from NIH funding are appropriately submitted to PMC within the designated time period.
Full information about how to how to comply with the NIH policy may be found on the library’s Web site here.