On July 1st, 2025, the new NIH Public Access Policy went into effect. This policy requires author-accepted manuscripts resulting from active NIH awards to be deposited in PubMed Central (PMC) without embargo by the official date of publication. Since July, some publishers have asked authors to sign publication agreements requiring a 12-month embargo, which conflicts … Journal-Related Challenges Related to Compliance with New NIH Public Access Policy

Your HBLS librarians hope your semester is going well! Here are a few resources and tips to support your research and scholarship. NIH Public Access Policy Compliance Do you have questions about complying with the new NIH Public Access policy? Are you experiencing challenges with publishers regarding options for complying with requirements? HBLS’ librarian Andrew … Health and Biomedical Library Services November 2025 News

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 … Notice of Updated Effective Date for New NIH Public Access Policy