NIH Public Access Policy

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy requires all funded investigators to deposit (or have deposited for them) their articles in the PubMed Central digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Specifics about this mandatory policy, as well as links to related resources are provided here. The Health Sciences Library works with The OSU Office of Sponsored Programs to help local researchers navigate the policy and procedures.

NIH Public Access Policy Resources

• NIH Policy Overview and Compliance
• Frequently Asked Questions
• About PubMed Central
• Manuscript submission help
• PubMed Central submission methods
• Publishers of the journals listed here deposit the final published versions of all NIH-sponsored papers in PubMed Central, without author involvement.