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Notice of Updated Effective Date for New NIH Public Access Policy
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On April 30, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it was moving up the effective date for its updated Public Access Policy to July 1, 2025. The 2024 NIH Public Access Policy, as initially described in the 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directive often called the “Nelson Memo,” was originally slated to go into effect on December 31, 2025. Aside from the accelerated timeline, the essentials have not changed.
Important highlights of the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy:
- The revised date will impact manuscripts resulting from NIH funds and accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025. This is true regardless of when the grant was funded, and thus will apply to many manuscripts resulting from NIH funds awarded before July 1.
- The manuscript acknowledgments must include a reference to the NIH grant number.
- The Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) — the final, peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication — resulting from NIH funds must be deposited immediately in the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS) and PubMed Central (PMC). Journal publishers may no longer impose an embargo period on these AAMs.
- The updated policy does not mandate that authors publish in a fully open access journal (Gold Open Access) or hybrid open access journal, and does not require authors to pay any fees to comply with the policy, such as paying an article processing charge (APC).
- Authors may still opt to include allowable publication fees as in/direct costs in their award budgets; however, the following costs are not allowable:
- If a journal attempts to charge authors a special fee for having NIH funding and/or complying with the NIH Public Access Policy.
- If a journal charges an NIH-funded author an APC when Brown already has an institutional agreement that waives APCs for that journal.
Brown University provides support for authors in complying with the NIH Public Access Policy.
The experts in the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) can answer questions about budgeting, direct or indirect, for allowable publication costs, and about compliance with the terms, conditions, and contracts of researchers’ NIH awards.
Health and Biomedical Library Services (HBLS) partners with the Division of Research to assist authors with manuscript requirements. This includes using My NCBI and My Bibliography to manage NIH-funded publications and uploading their Author Accepted Manuscripts to the NIH Manuscript Submission system (NIHMS) and PMC. See the HBLS guide to the NIH Public Access Policy for more details, and email HealthSciLibrarians@brown.edu with any questions.
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Daniel P. O’Mahony Appointed Associate University Librarian for Resource Strategy
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Daniel P. O’Mahony Daniel P. O’Mahony, formerly Director of Library Planning and Assessment, has been named Associate University Librarian for Resource Strategy at the Brown University Library.
As AUL for Resource Strategy, Dan will be part of the Library’s senior executive team, and he will assume oversight for cross-departmental and cross-functional coordination of academic and budgetary strategy. In this capacity, he will work to improve decision-making and workflows by bringing a more intensively data-informed approach to maximizing the value of collection funding for teaching and research at Brown. Dan will continue to direct the Library’s wider planning and assessment functions.
Dan has an outstanding track record of accomplishments at the Library over more than 32 years as both a librarian and library administrator. Dan joined the Library in 1992 as the Government Documents Coordinator, overseeing the Library’s extensive interdisciplinary collection of United States, Rhode Island, and United Nations documents. In that role, he integrated access to both traditional and digital resources and facilitated the transition to a more electronic research environment.
As a nationally recognized expert in the area of government information, Dan testified twice before the United States Congress on matters regarding public access to government information. He was appointed three times to the national advisory council to the U.S. Government Publishing Office, and for many years taught a graduate course on government information at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. During his time at Brown, Dan’s direct contributions to research have been recognized in over 40 co-author credits on faculty publications.
Since 2003, Dan has worked in various administrative roles, directly overseeing or deeply involved in nearly all aspects of library operations and services. As Director of Planning and Assessment for the last 15 years, Dan has been critical to the Library’s success in advancing data gathering and analysis practices that have resulted in continuous improvement in resources, programs, and services to meet the needs of students, faculty, and staff. He is an expert at gathering both quantitative and qualitative data to inform management decisions ranging from staff morale and satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic to student surveys and focus groups, addressing overcrowding in the stacks, and strengthening workplace culture and climate. Dan already plays a vital role in strategy and budget development with the University Librarian and Deputy University Librarian.
A highly capable and experienced staff member, Dan has been a key contributor to much of the Library’s success, and we are excited that he is taking on the broader leadership responsibilities of the AUL for Resource Strategy role.
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Pizza Please!
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Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Plan on visiting a library during finals? Let us fortify your efforts with pizza!
Schedule
- Monday, May 5 @ 8 p.m. at Orwig Music Library
- Tuesday, May 6 @ 9 p.m. in the lobby of the Rock
- Wednesday, May 7 @ 9 p.m. in Friedman Study Center at the SciLi
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Best of luck with finals!