Research Guides: Scholarly Communication & Related Issues: NIH Public Access Policy

How to Comply with NIH Mandate

HOW TO COMPLY

The Policy applies to any manuscript that:

Is peer-reviewed;
And, is accepted for publication in a journal on or after April 7, 2008;
And, arises from:
- Any direct funding from an NIH grant or cooperative agreement active in Fiscal Year 2008 or beyond, or;
- Any direct funding from an NIH contract signed on or after April 7, 2008, or;
- Any direct funding from the NIH Intramural Program

UCI Documentation - How to Comply with NIH Mandate
UCI Department of Education, February 2013.

US Federal Funder Public Access Policies

Agencies that sponsor research are interested in maximizing the value of that research. Increasingly, this means requiring the recipients of grants to make the results of their research – both scholarly articles and the data supporting them – freely available to the public.

Submit a Paper to NIH

Submit Paper to PubMed Central

There are four methods to ensure that an applicable paper is submitted to PubMed Central (PMC) in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. Authors may use whichever method is most appropriate for them and consistent with their publishing agreement. The table below provides an overview of the submission methods. Links can be opened with CTRL-Click. See notes below the table, under “Method B”, for information about several publishers whose journals School of Education investigators often publish in.

	Method A Journal deposits final published articles in PMC without author involvement	Method B Author asks publisher to deposit specific final published article in PMC	Method C Author deposits final peer-reviewed manuscript in PMC via the NIHMS	Method D Author completes submission of final peer-reviewed manuscript deposited by publisher in the NIHMS
Version of paper submitted	Final Published Article	Final Published Article	Final Peer-Reviewed Manuscript	Final Peer-Reviewed Manuscript
Task 1: Who starts the deposit process?	Publisher	Publisher	Author or designee, via NIHMS	Publisher
Task 2: Who approves paper for processing?	Publisher	Publisher	Author, via NIHMS	Author, via NIHMS
Task 3: Who approves paper for Pub Med Central display?	Publisher	Publisher	Author, via NIHMS	Author, via NIHMS
Participating journal/publisher	Method A Journals	Make arrangements with these publishers	Check publishing agreement	Make arrangements with these publishers
Who is responsible?	NIH Awardee	NIH Awardee	NIH Awardee	NIH Awardee
To cite papers, from acceptance for publication to 3 months post publication	PMCID or “PMC Journal- In Process”	PMCID or “PMC Journal- In Process”	PMCID or NIHMSID	PMCID or NIHMSID
To cite papers, 3 months post publication and beyond	PMCID	PMCID	PMCID	PMCID

Method A: Publish in a journal that deposits all final published articles in PubMed Central (PMC) without author involvement

Method B: Make arrangements to have the publisher deposit a specific final published article in PubMed Central

Method C: Deposit the final peer-reviewed manuscript in PubMed Central yourself via the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS)

Method D: Complete the submission process for a final peer-reviewed manuscript that the publisher has deposited in the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS)