NIH Public Access Policy

NEW

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on April 30, 2025 an accelerated implementation date for the updated Public Access Policy (released December 17, 2024). It will now go into effect July 1, 2025. Like the current policy, it applies to peer-reviewed journal articles from all research funded in whole or in part by NIH. 

The updated NIH Public Access Policy advances the NIH’s long standing prioritization of providing public access to NIH funded research. NIH’s 2023 Data Management and Sharing Policy remains in effect and will not change based on this new implementation date.

This guide will provide and link to information about the various aspects of the Policy such as

• Determining if the policy applies to your paper;
• Process for submitting papers to PubMed Central (PMC);
• Correctly citing papers in applications and reports;
• Linking your My NCBI and eRA Commons accounts;
• Using My Bibliography to track your publications

For additional information please see
NIH Public Access Policy website

Overview of NIH Public Access Policy (video) from UCD Publishing Symposium, October 2017 

For information about the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy (Jan 25, 2023) see this News post.