Transcript NIH Public Policy Mandate Brown Bag PowerPoint

UPDATED NIH PUBLIC ACCESS
POLICY
Health Sciences Library staff
Office of Grants & Contracts staff
NIH UPDATED PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY
The Director of the National Institutes of Health
shall require that all investigators funded by the
NIH submit or have submitted for them to the
National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an
electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed
manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be
made publicly available no later than 12 months
after the official date of publication
NIH UPDATED PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY
Went into effect on April 7, 2008
 Previous policy - voluntary to submit to PubMed
Central
 Applies to any peer-reviewed journal article
where research was funded by NIH
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Even if the PI isn’t an author
Three steps to compliance
STEP 1 – ADDRESS COPYRIGHT
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Author is responsible for addressing copyright.
Address at time of submission of article
 Make sure that author has permission to deposit in
PubMed Central
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Some journals will submit to PubMed Central for
you - easiest
 Some journals will submit to PubMed Central for
you, but you must pay a fee
 Some journals won’t submit to PubMed Central
and you will have to submit on your own
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STEP 2 – SUBMIT ARTICLE
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Submit final peer-reviewed article, with graphics
and supplemental material
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Submit your word doc and images, not the proof from
the publisher
If journal will submit for you, nothing for you to
do (easy!)
 If you need to do submission, use the NIH
Manuscript Submission System (also easy!)
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STEP 3 – CITE ARTICLE
Every article in PubMed Central has a unique
PubMed Central ID (PMCID)
 Starting May 25, 2008:
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When submitting NIH applications, proposals, or
progress reports, you must include the PMCID for
each of your NIH-funded articles
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