The Health Sciences Library compiled this information to help you comply with new legislation.
As of April 7, 2008, your articles arising from NIH funds must be submitted to PubMed Central (PMC) upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no more than 12 months after appearing in a peer-reviewed journal.
You must ensure you comply with the NIH Public Access Policy by
following these steps:
- Include the UNC-Chapel Hill cover letter to the Publisher when submitting any articles arising from NIH funds.
- Attach a signed copy of the UNC-Chapel Hill Additional Term document when returning the publisher's authors agreement.
- Submit the final peer-reviewed manuscript to PubMed Central upon acceptance by the publisher.
- Add the
NIH Manuscript # or the PMC ID #
when citing these articles in progress reports, renewals, and new applications.
PMC is different from PubMed. PMC is a freely-available repository of full-text articles. PubMed is a database of citations to the published literature. Anyone can access the full text of articles in PMC, while many articles that PubMed links to can only be viewed for a fee or with a subscription
The new policy ensures that your published research will be freely accessible to health care providers, educators, scientists, and the general public, some of whom might not have access to your research otherwise. Expanded access can increase the readership of your NIH-funded research and enable others to learn from and build on previous research. |
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