NIH Public Access Policy

The NIH Public Access Policy is an open access mandate, drafted in 2004 and mandated in 2008,^[1] requiring that research papers describing research funded by the National Institutes of Health must be available to the public free through PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. PubMed Central is the self-archiving repository in which authors or their publishers deposit their publications. Copyright is retained by the usual holders, but authors may submit papers with one of the Creative Commons licenses.

^ National Institutes of Health, "Request for Information: NIH Public Access Policy", available at https://publicaccess.nih.gov/comments.htm. ("NIH implemented the Public Access Policy on January 11, 2008.")

[NIH-RFI-1] National Institutes of Health, "Request for Information: NIH Public Access Policy", available at https://publicaccess.nih.gov/comments.htm. ("NIH implemented the Public Access Policy on January 11, 2008.")

[1]