Introducing the New NIH Public Access Policy! - Office of Science Policy

"In that spirit, today I’m pleased to share the news that NIH is releasing a new NIH Public Access Policy to make the results of NIH-funded research accessible as quickly as possible. The new Policy, which will replace the 2008 Public Access Policy upon effective date, removes the twelve-month embargo period to provide accelerated access to published manuscripts. Importantly, NIH was cognizant while developing this Policy that it would not exacerbate potential inequities in publishing, and as such, work within the existing policy framework to minimize new burdens on the research community.

Alongside the new Policy, NIH is also releasing its plan to make it easier for researchers, clinicians, students, and the public to find and make use of research results. Particularly, NIH is outlining how researchers and institutions should leverage use of metadata and persistent identifiers and proposes new requirements for NIH-supported repositories to collect and make this information available and searchable.

More information on this plan and information on how to provide comments can be found here. These efforts are also aligned with activities across the rest of government as we all work to implement the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) memo Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research...."