NIH Public Access Policy
From the Partners Research Compliance News –
The NIH recently updated its Public Access Policy (NOT-OD-13-042) making changes that represent a significant shift in terms of the NIH’s enforcement, in addition to mandating the use of My NCBI to record publications on Progress Reports, either electronically through the RPPR (the new Research Performance Progress Report) or the PHS 2590 using the My NCBI generated PDF report. Failure to comply will result in funding delays for noncompeting continuation awards. Beginning with non-competing awards with a start date of July 1, 2013 (and Progress Report submission date of May 15, 2013), the NIH will delay processing the award and obligating the next year of funding if publications arising from the award are not in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy. Read the Partners PubMed Update Memo (April 30, 2013).
Guidance (Updated for Spring 2013)
NIH Public Access Policy Overview
PubMed Central Manuscript Submission Guidance
PubMed Central Copyright Guidance
PubMed Addendum
Model language allowing authors to deposit manuscripts into PubMed Central
FAQ: My Manuscript is Exempt or Listed as Noncompliant by Mistake
Resources
NIH’s Public Access Policy Web Site (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/index.htm) contains in-depth information on the Policy and how investigators can comply with it.
NIH Notice – Public Access Policy (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html)
NIH PubMed Central Submission Tutorial (http://www.nihms.nih.gov/web-help/)
SPARC: the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition. Author Rights: Using the SPARC Author Addendum to secure an investigator’s rights as the author of a journal article (http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.shtml)
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences to learn about journals’ copyright transfer policies and compliance with the NIH Policy (http://mulford.meduohio.edu/instr/)
Open access publishers (all articles are automatically available in PubMed Central): BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com) | (PLOS) Public Library of Science (http://plos.org
Web Tutorials Provided by the HMS Countway Library
The MGH/MGPO confidential and anonymous Compliance Helpline 617-726-1446