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NIH Public Access Compliance: Report & Cite Submissions

Finding PMCIDs

Go to PubMed Central to find the PMCID/PMID/ NIHMSID Converter.  Submit one or a set of PubMed IDs (PMIDs) and get the corresponding PMCIDs and/or NIHMS IDs if they exist.

Show evidence of compliance

NIH logoIn NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports, show compliance by including one of the following at the end of a citation:

  • PubMed Central identification #(PMCID)​

  • NIH Manuscript Submission indentification # (NIHMSID)​

  • "PMC Journal - In Process"

This applies to articles that fall under the Policy and are authored or co-authored by you or arose from your NIH award. 

Examples:

Assigned PMCID

Ports MO, Nagle RB, Pond GD, Cress AE. Extracellular engagement of alpha6 integrin inhibited urokinase-type plasminogen activator-mediated cleavage and delayed human prostate bone metastasis. Cancer Res. 2009 Jun 15;69(12):5007-14. PMC2697270

In Process: use for Submission Methods A & B (within 3 months of publication)

Ports MO, Nagle RB, Pond GD, Cress AE. Extracellular engagement of alpha6 integrin inhibited urokinase-type plasminogen activator-mediated cleavage and delayed human prostate bone metastasis. Cancer Res. 2009 Jun 15;69(12):5007-14. In Press.

PMC Journal - In Process 

In Process: use assigned NIHMSID for Submission Methods C & D (within 3 months of publication)
Ports MO, Nagle RB, Pond GD, Cress AE. Extracellular engagement of alpha6 integrin inhibited urokinase-type plasminogen activator-mediated cleavage and delayed human prostate bone metastasis. Cancer Res. 2009 Jun 15;69(12):5007-14. NIHMS112418  

Note: NIH awardees are responsible for ensuring that all steps of the NIHMS submission process are complete, including having the PMCID assigned, within three months of the publication of the article. Articles are noncompliant if they do not have a PMCID three months after the publication date.

PDF of Publications

From within My Bibliography you can generate PDF reports which can be attached or inserted into required reports. Many NIH grants require progress reports (RPPR, commonly pronounced as "ripper") and final reports.

Below are instructions for creating a PDF of publications for a report.

1. Select the checkbox next to the citations you wish to include in the PDF

2. Click on the "Compliance report (PDF)." If you do not see this option, you may need to link your My NCBI account with your eRA commons account.

Fill in the information in the box that pops up.

Note:  The generated PDF includes the compliance status for each article.  If you selected articles with a status of N/A for which no funding has been associated or articles with an unknown (?) status, they will not appear in the PDF report.

Note: Progress Report (RPPR) instructions:

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