NIH Public Access Policy

US Government Mandates

The Laws and Orders Upholding Public Access Include:

• The NIH Public Access Policy implements Division F Section 217 of PL 111-8 (Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009)
• Feb. 22, 2013 Memo from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP): "Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research."
• S. 779/H.R. 1477, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act of 2015; while not yet passed, was in part included in the 2014 Omnibus Appropriations Act.

•  The Wellcome Trust (UK-based): http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Spotlight-issues/Open-access/Monograph-deposit/index.htm
•  Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC): http://europepmc.org/About
  • Supported by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, University of Manchester, British Library, in cooperation with the NCBI/NLM.
  • Funders include: WHO, British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Austrian Science Fund FWF, etc. (http://europepmc.org/Funders/)
•  Funders with Open Access Mandates from ROARMAP: http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/policymaker_type/funder.html

Agencies Using the NIH's NIHMS/PMC Systems:

• Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
• Federal and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Veterans Authority (VA)

Agencies Developing Their Own Systems:

• Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific Information (OSTI) - PAGESbeta
• National Science Foundation (NSF) - The NSF Public Access Policy went into effect on January 25, 2016. Their repository (in beta-form) is available at http://par.nsf.gov/.