NIH Public Access Policy Overview
The National Institutes of Health has the longest-standing Public Access Policy for a U.S. federal research-funding agency (policy established 2008), and served as a model for many other policies when the OSTP directed other federal funding agencies to develop public access plans in early 2013. The NIH is a major source of funding for KU Research.
In short, the NIH Public Access Policy is an open access mandate requiring that research papers describing research funded by the National Institutes of Health must be available to the public for free through PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. Failure to comply with this mandate can jeopardize continued and future funding.
NIH Scientific Data Sharing
NIH has issued a new Data Management and Sharing policy, effective January 25, 2023. This policy promotes data sharing in order to accelerate biomedical research. Researchers and institutions are expected to:
- Plan and budget for data management and sharing
- Submit a Data Management and Sharing Plan with each funding application
- Comply with approved Data Management and Sharing Plans
Further information to assist KU researchers with understanding the new requirements is available at KU Libraries' NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy guide. NIH's comprehensive guidance on the new policy is available at sharing.nih.gov.
NIH indicates that it anticipates no changes to its new Data Management and Sharing policy as a result of the 2022 OSTP memo on public access to the results of federally-funded research.
For assistance with scholarly publication issues, contact Josh Bolick, Head of the Shulenburger Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright, at jbolick@ku.edu or see the KU Libraries Scholarly Communication Services page.
For assistance with research data management issues, contact Jamene Brooks-Kieffer, Data Services Librarian, at jamenebk@ku.edu or see the KU Libraries Research Data Management page.
Compliance Resources
Versions:
- The Published version is the article as it appears in the journal when published.
- Final Peer-Reviewed Manuscript version—also known as the author's final draft, author’s accepted manuscript or post-print—is the author’s version of the draft document that incorporates peer review suggestions. It often a Microsoft Word document that has the same content as the published version, but lacks the typesetting and page numbering of the published version.
Compliance and Submission Resources:
