NIH Public Access Policy
- Background
The NIH
Public Access Policy
requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that
arise from NIH funds to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication
and be made accessible to the public no later than 12 months after
publication.
The NIH Public Access Policy
has been mandatory since April 2008 and 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, or; An NIH employee.
NIH Public Access Policy –
Reminders
A few reminders to ensure
compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy:
A
PMCID is required within three months
post-publication of a work.
Publishers
report that NIH-funded authors often fail to note a work as being NIH-funded on
their copyright agreement forms. This leads to a delay in timely submission of
a work in order to receive a PMCID which is now required within three months
post-publication of a work. This situation applies to the majority of journals
used by WU NIH-funded authors in which the journal publisher submits a
peer-reviewed manuscript version of the work to PubMed Central on behalf of the
author (Method D form of submission).
Multiple
Washington University research cores are now part of the Institute of Clinical
and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and supported in part through an NIH Clinical
and Translational Science Award (CTSA). Investigators whose research benefits
from those cores must acknowledge the NIH/NCRR grant that helps support those
cores. The ICTS website includes a list of included cores. Investigators that receive any
support (i.e. use of ICTS core or service, pilot funding) from any ICTS resource
should cite the Washington University ICTS/CTSA grant in all publications and
projects.
This publication [or
project] was supported by NIH/NCRR Washington University-ICTS Grant Number
UL1 RR024992.
A
new feature available in My Bibliography facilitates the management of
publication compliance with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public
Access Policy. From the new Awards View, eRA Commons users are able to see
whether their publications are compliant with the Policy, start the manuscript
submission process, associate their NIH extramural awards with their
publications, and designate delegates to manage their bibliography via My NCBI.
PIs
who receive an email from a NIH Program Officer requesting compliance with the
NIH Public Access Policy for select citations are required to copy the
appropriate WU Institutional Business Office on their response to NIH:
Office of Sponsored Research
Services – School of Medicine
(formerly Grants and
Contracts) at msosrs@wustl.edu
Office of Sponsored Research
Services – Danforth Campus (formerly Research Office) at dcosrs@wustl.edu
Add the following
statement in the response: “The
documentation provided is in response to your email dated (insert date here).
Our Institutional Business Official (IBO) is being copied utilizing the
office’s generic email address,
(i.e., msosrs@wustl.edu OR dcosrs@wustl.edu).”
Please
note: There are upcoming classes on the NIH Public Access Policy:
Wednesday, September 8, 2010,
10:00-11:00 am
Tuesday, November 9, 2010,
3:00-4:00 pm
Customized
presentations are available upon request. Please contact Cathy
Sarli for more information.
Assistance
with compliance is available for WU and WUSM staff.
WU:
Ruth
Lewis
WUSM: Cathy
Sarli
See the NIH Public Access
Policy website for services and resources
available for WU and WUSM staff.
now include bX recommender citations (for some articles).
This is a little like PubMed’s Related Articles service or Amazon's
“other users also bought these”. While not a search service, bX is
designed to provide automated browsing of scholarly articles based on
keywords and usage data. 