1.1 NIH Public Access Policy: Description & Purpose
DESCRIPTION
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) passed its Public Access Policy on April 7, 2008.
- "To advance science and improve human health, NIH makes the peer-reviewed articles it funds publicly available on PubMed Centra Links to an external site.l Links to an external site.. The NIH public access policy requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to PubMed Central immediately upon acceptance for publication."
- The statement can be found @ https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html Links to an external site.
- The NIH will delay processing of an award or a Progress Report (RPPR) if publications arising from a grant are not in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy.
PURPOSE
- Provides free online access to full-text peer-reviewed journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research.
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) asks every scientist who receives an NIH research grant, and who publishes the results in a peer-reviewed journal, to deposit a digital copy of the article in PubMed Central (PMC), the online digital library maintained by the NIH.
- PMC Links to an external site. will then provide free online access to its copy some time after the article is published in a journal, the length of the delay to be determined at the time the deposit is made.