NIH Public Access Policy   Tags: biomed topic, national institutes of health, research  

The Biomedical Library will hold a session on complying with the NIH Public Access Policy on Thursday, May 16, 2013 from 11 am - 12 pm in the Biomedical Library Classroom.  Seating is limited; please RSVP to reserve your space.

Interested in an information session for your lab or group?  Contact Lisa Federer to schedule a workshop!

The following videos contain information about the Policy and how to comply.

• The NIH Public Access Policy and Your Grant (7 min, 33 sec)
  A short video overview of the policy created by NYU Health Sciences Libraries and NYU Office of Research Education.
• My Bibliography: Public Access Compliance (3 min, 26 sec)
  Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine on using the MyNCBI My Bibliography feature to manage Public Access Policy compliance.
• NIH Public Access Policy: How to Comply (34 min, 14 sec)
  Video of the April 5, 2013 instructional session at the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library.  The session slides and handout are also available.

The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication.  To help advance science and improve human health, the Policy requires that these papers are accessible to the public on PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication.

(From the NIH Public Access Homepage)

Updated guidelines (NOT-OD-12-160) to the NIH Public Access Policy have been issued, announcing that in spring 2013, at the earliest, NIH will delay processing of non-competing continuation grant awards, if publications arising from that award are not in compliance with the NIH public access policy. Once publications are in compliance, awards will go forward. This change will take effect in tandem with NIH requiring the use of the Research Performance Progress Report (RPPRs) for all Streamlined Non-competing Award Process (SNAP) and Fellowship awards, also in the spring of 2013.

These changes are being announced several months in advance of implementation, to give awardees as much time as possible to comply with the policy. Awardees should be strongly encouraged to comply with the public access policy. Recent enhancements to My NCBI allow awardees to associate papers with their awards, and track public access compliance. Additional helpful resources, including frequently asked questions about the public access policy, are available on the web site.*

^*Article adapted from “Upcoming Changes to NIH Public Access Policy Reporting Requirements!” NewsBits . NN/LM National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region, 16 Nov. 2012. Accessed 20 Dec. 2012.

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