The requires that all peer-reviewed work accepted for publication after April 7, 2008 that arises from direct support of the NIH must be made available in PubMed Central no later than 12 months following publication (). The NIH has begun to pay increasing attention to compliance, as a recent states "NIH will delay processing of an award if publications arising from it are not in compliance with the NIH public access policy."
Consequently, all peer-reviewed publications arising from the use of CSB facilities, regardless of field of study, must be deposited into PubMed Central to ensure the timely renewal of CSB funding, and thus, user access to our synchrotron facilities.
Currently, there are for PubMed Central (PMC) submission:
- : The journal () will enter the final published manuscript into PMC directly without involving the manuscript authors.
- : The journal publisher () will, if requested by the author(s), enter the final published manuscript into PMC. This often involves choosing an open-access option for the publication agreement.
- : Either a manuscript author (Method C) or the publisher (Method D, ) submits the final peer-reviewed manuscript using the . Unlike Methods A & B, the author(s) themselves must approve both the NIHMS submission and the final PMC version.
CSB cannot submit or approve manuscripts on behalf of our users in , as the manuscript approval steps must be performed by one of the authors on the paper; note that this need not be the corresponding author. We are, however, happy to help our users with the submission process. Please contact us with any questions about NIHMS submission or compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy.