NIH Public Access Compliance: Overview

This guide offers detailed information on each step.

• Determine applicability and check Copyright

• Deposit paper in PMC

• Use My Bibliography for reporting in eRA Commons

• Show evidence of compliance
   

Tools & Checklist includes cheat sheets and publisher information.

Use the tabs above to learn how to become fully compliant with the NIH Mandate.

The NIH has different types of grants and this website allows one to look up codes and different grants:

NIH uses activity codes (e.g. R01, R43, etc.) to differentiate the wide variety of research-related programs we support. NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs)  may vary in the way they use activity codes; not all ICs accept applications for all types of grant programs or they apply specialized eligibility criteria. Look closely at Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) to determine which ICs participate and the specifics of eligibility.

 To advance science and improve human health, NIH makes the peer-reviewed articles it funds publicly available on PubMed Central. 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. 

PubMed Central was created in 2000 as a digital, open access repository for biomendical and life sciences journal literature. In 2008 Congress mandated that all peer-reviewed journal articles that arise from NIH-funded research must be submitted.

PubMed links to the full text articles in PubMed Central.

• NCBI info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
• eRA Commons - Help - 1-866-504-9522 
• NIHMS Tutorial
• NIHMS Help Desk Form - Quick response time!
• NIH Public Access How To
• NIH Grants & Funding - Glossary of Terms/Acronyms