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NIH Public Access Policy

Information and guidance for complying with the NIH Public Access Policy.

Publisher Policies

Here we summarize the relevant publisher polices related to the updated NIH Public Access Policy and the known steps to compliance. Many publishers are still actively updating their sites, so we recommend verfiying this information via the provided links and/or directly with the publisher. We will continue to monitor and add to this list as new information becomes available. 

Last updated: August 18, 2025

 

Publisher

Policy Summary

Route to Compliance

Who submits to PMC

AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

"Authors of peer-reviewed research may now place their accepted manuscript in a repository of their choice immediately upon publication." 

Policy

  • acknowledge funding 
  • retain the author accepted manuscript

Author (Method C)

AACR (American Association for Cancer Research)

"The Author Accepted Manuscript is permitted to be deposited in PMC and made available to the public on or after the first online publication date of the Version of Record"

Policy

  • acknowledge funding 
  • retain the author accepted manuscript
Author (Method C)
ASCO (American Society for Clinical Oncology)

"For all articles that report research supported by US government agencies or Wellcome Trust, ASCO deposits the Just Accepted version to NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) after transmission to production. Afterwards, publication on PMC will occur immediately upon online publication, where the articles can be accessed and read by the public free of charge." 

Policy

  • acknowledge funding
  • author will need to respond to NIHMS approval emails

ASCO (Method D)

BMJ Publishing Group

"BMJ Group offers a flexible Green Open Access policy that enables authors to meet the requirements of their funders or institutions. This includes full compliance with the updated NIH Public Access Policy, which means that NIH-funded authors can deposit their accepted manuscripts with zero embargo as per the new guidelines."

Link

  • acknowledge funding
  • retain the author accepted manuscript

Author (Method C)

if publishing Open Access, publisher will submit

Elsevier

Elsevier has not yet updated their site to respond to the policy. The old policy still remains, stating they assist with depositing NIH-funded publications to PMC with a 12 month embargo. Unofficially, we understand they are pointing to open access as the only route toward policy compliance.

Policy

  • acknowledge funding
  • publish via open access(?)
Elsevier- only if Open Access
JAMA/JAMA Network

"JAMA and all the journals in the JAMA Network permit authors of original research articles to deposit their accepted manuscript in a public repository of their choosing on the date of acceptance provided that it is not made publicly available until the date of publication."

Policy

  • acknowledge funding
  • retain the author accepted manuscript
Author (Method C)
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

"Authors are welcome to post the accepted version of their manuscript to an institutional repository, funder repository, or personal website immediately upon publication of the Version of Record.

This option comes with no cost to the author, and we do not mandate a self-archiving embargo period for any author publishing in any of our journals."

Policy 

  • acknowledge funding  
  • retain the author accepted manuscript
Author (Method C)
New England Journal of Medicine

"For articles arising from research funded by the U.S. government, including the NIH, NEJM will deposit the PDF file of the Author Accepted Manuscript to PubMed Central to be made available after publication"

Policy

  • acknowledge funding
  • author will need to respond to NIHMS approval emails
NEJM (Method D)
Oncology Nursing Society

"Authors are permitted to post the original draft of the article on PubMed Central no sooner than six months after the article's publication."

Policy

  • acknowledge funding
  • route to compliance is unclear
Author should clarify policy with the publisher
Oxford University Press

"Authors in OUP journals can comply with the NIH policy by publishing open access, either in one of OUP’s open access journals, or through choosing open access publishing in a hybrid journal. OUP will deposit open access articles in PMC and make them available immediately on publication."

Policy

  • acknowledge funding
  • publish via open access
Oxford- only if Open Access
Springer Nature

"Choosing the subscription publication route in a Springer Nature journal conflicts with immediate public access policies, such as NIH’s policy. Authors will therefore need to opt for gold OA in order to comply with the NIH’s policy."

Policy

  • acknowledge funding
  • publish via open access
Springer Nature-only if Open Access
Taylor & Francis

"Immediate repository access to subscription-based articles is not compatible with the article sharing policies for most Taylor & Francis journals. NIH grantees should therefore choose a gold OA publishing option for their article.
Taylor & Francis will manage the deposit of NIH-funded OA articles in PubMed Central on your behalf."

Policy

  • acknowledge funding
  • publish via open access
Taylor & Francis- only if Open Access
Wiley 

"For NIH-funded Articles published in any of Wiley’s fully Open Access journals: Wiley will continue to handle PMC deposits upon issue publication with no changes to current procedures.

For NIH-funded Articles accepted for publication in any of Wiley’s Hybrid journals, Authors will have one route to compliance: Choose the open access publishing route and receive Wiley's deposit service, in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy."

Policy
  • acknowledge funding
  • publish via open access
Wiley - only if Open Access
Wolters Kluwer/ Lippincott 

"Authors can comply with this policy by publishing their article as open access. In such cases, the journal will deposit the final published article to PubMed Central on behalf of the authors, ensuring public availability without embargo on the official date of publication.

If the article is not published as open access, authors can comply by depositing their accepted manuscript to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication."

Policy

  • acknowledge funding
  • retain author accepted manuscript

Author (Method C)

if publishing Open Access, publisher will submit