All UNT Health researchers should reach out to the Office of Research and Compliance, the Office of Sponsored Programs, or their PI for specific requirements of their grants.
NIH requires that investigators submit manuscripts upon acceptance for publication into PubMed Central. Instructions for doing so can be found on the "Submit When Publishing" page.
If the journal in which you wish to publish will not support one of the submission methods described in this guide, it is the responsibility of the author/awardee to choose a different journal that does support compliance with the public access policy.
NIH Compliance Requirements
To comply with the policy, the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication and immediately available to the public with no embargo on the Official Date of Publication.
For journals or publishers with formal agreements with the National Library of Medicine, compliance can be met by submission to PubMed Central on the Official Date of Publication, for immediate public access.
By accepting NIH funding, recipients agree to grant NIH a license to the Author Accepted Manuscript. When submitting an AAM, authors will agree to a license similar to the Government Use License (2 CFR 200.315), which provides NIH with a royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable right to the Author Accepted Manuscripts:
“I hereby grant to NIH, a royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable right to reproduce, publish, or otherwise use this work for Federal purposes and to authorize others to do so. This grant of rights includes the right to make the final, peer-reviewed manuscript publicly available in PubMed Central upon the Official Date of Publication.”
This explicitly grants NIH the right to make the article publicly available in PubMed Central on the Official Date of Publication. This resource provides more explanation of the government use license.
NIH encourages authors to include a statement that indicates the Author Accepted Manuscript is subject to the NIH Public Access Policy provided in the Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy: Government Use License and Rights NOT-OD-25-049
“This manuscript is the result of funding in whole or in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is subject to the NIH Public Access Policy. Through acceptance of this federal funding, NIH has been given a right to make this manuscript publicly available in PubMed Central upon the Official Date of Publication, as defined by NIH.”
You can monitor compliance for your grant using My NCBI. A tutorial for how to do this can be found on the “Manage Compliance with My NCBI” page.
