UNT Health researchers should be aware of the Public Access Policy requirements, how to submit a manuscript to PMC, and specific journal policies before they determine the best place to publish their research.
Help with NIH Policies can be found below:
A comprehensive list of PMC-indexed journals can be found here. Information on how to submit a manuscript to PMC can be found on the Publication Submission page.
For help with journal policies, please refer to each journal's Author pages.
For advanced help, please reach out to the Gibson D. Lewis Library's Department of Digital Scholarship or your department's Library Liaison.
An Article Processing Charge (APC) is a fee that authors may be required to pay when publishing their research in open-access (OA) journals. The fee is intended to cover publishing services, including peer review, editing, and permanent hosting of the article.
APCs can vary widely based on publisher and discipline. These charges can range from as low as $100 to as much as $13,000 per article. It is therefore highly advisable that researchers build APC charges into their grant proposals or have verified departmental funding to cover these costs. Gibson D. Lewis Library has entered into several Read and Publish agreements to help offset the cost of publishing. However, these agreements may not cover all costs or be available for all journals, and ultimately, it is the researcher's responsibility to cover publication fees.
For help identifying APC charges for a particular journal or more information about Read and Publish agreements please contact the library at AskALibrarian@unthealth.edu.
When you are negotiating the terms of your publication or copyright agreement, make sure that the author agreement includes a stipulation allowing the full text of the paper to be posted to PubMed Central (PMC).
As an example, the kind of language that an author or institution might add to a copyright agreement includes the following:
“Journal acknowledges that Author retains the right to provide a copy of the final peer-reviewed manuscript to the NIH upon acceptance for Journal publication, for public archiving in PubMed Central (PMC) without embargo upon the Official Date of Publication by the Journal."
To avoid miscommunication, awardees and authors must notify publishers that a manuscript is subject to the NIH Public Access Policy before the publisher decides to review it.
