The Cost of Confusion: Dispelling Myths about the NIH Public Access Policy and Article Processing Charges

" "The Only Way to OA is Pay-to-Play" Myth: NIH's immediate public access mandate requires researchers to pay expensive APC fees to journals.

The Reality: Authors can achieve full compliance with the NIH policy at zero cost by depositing their author accepted manuscript directly into PubMed Central, even when publishing in traditional subscription journals."