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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces its policy on enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from NIH-funded research.
February 4, 2005

Beginning May 2, 2005, NIH-funded investigators are requested to submit to the NIH National Library of Medicine's (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC) an electronic version of the author's final manuscript upon acceptance for publication, resulting from research supported, in whole or in part, with direct costs 1 from NIH. The author's final manuscript is defined as the final version accepted for journal publication, and includes all modifications from the publishing peer review process.

This policy applies to all research grant and career development award mechanisms, cooperative agreements, contracts, Institutional and Individual Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards, as well as NIH intramural research studies. For more information about the policy please see the following NIH link: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-022.html