1.1 NIH Public Access Policy: Description & Purpose

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DESCRIPTION

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.