1. NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY What is the policy Whom does it affect How to comply Merle Rosenzweig Health Sciences Libraries University of Michigan [email_address]

4. WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW The NIH Public Access Policy implements Division G, Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008), which states: “ The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.”

6. WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER … all investigators funded by the NIH submit final peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication….

14. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN OPEN LETTER This letter can accompany the publisher copyright agreement. The letter can be down loaded from: http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/research/regulations/nihpublicaccess.htm

20. MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER J Neurosci article jn-rm-####-08 (NIHMS #93387) This email is to alert you that the manuscript version of this article was submitted on your behalf to the NIH Manuscript Submission system because this article was funded (at least partially) by NIH. You will receive an email confirmation regarding this submission and in order to complete the submission process, you will be prompted to log in to the NIHMS to review and approve the submitted manuscript .

21. NIH IS CHECKING COMPLIANCE NIH Public Access Policy and Progress Reports Dr. XXXX just sent up a progress report and has several journals that [were] listed from the grant. Problem They want us to make sure that the articles are in the central system, BUT I am lost. This [is] the first time I have been asked to do this.* *Quote from an email message

23. NIHMS FILE

26. ABSTRACTPLUS VIEW DISPLAYS THE PMCID

27. FINDING THE PMCID

29. SEND SELECTED RECORDS TO THE CLIPBOARD

30. RETRIEVE THE RECORDS FROM THE CLIPBOARD

31. SELECT ABSTRACTPLUS DISPLAY

32. PMCID PMCID FREE FULL-TEXT

33. BIOSKETCHES Transfer of my two NIH grants from my previous institution to UM is being held up by my Biosketch lacking appropriate PMCID numbers yet ….* *Email from a faculty member

35. SAMPLE BIOSKETCH

36. FOR MORE INFORMATION http://publicaccess.nih.gov/