NIH Funding Requirements

1. An electronic version of the peer-reviewed manuscript must be submitted to PubMed Central (PMC) upon acceptance for publication. This is referred to as the “author accepted manuscript” (as opposed to the “final published article” that appears in a journal).
2. In both the author accepted manuscript and the final published article, you must include an acknowledgement of federal funding and a statement on rights. Sample language for this is as follows:

Research reported in this publication was supported by [name of the Institute, Center, or other funding component] of the National Institutes of Health under grant number [specific NIH grant number in this format: R01GM012345]. 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. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

3. Any data associated with research that was funded on or after January 23, 2023 must be deposited in a public data repository. You should have submitted a Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Plan when you applied for funding; this is a component of that plan. Learn more via the NIH’s Data Management & Sharing Policy Overview, or reach out to a NECO librarian at [email protected].

Many journals deposit author accepted manuscripts to PMC on an author’s behalf, but not all. It is the responsibility of the author(s) to ensure compliance. A partial list of journals that have a formal relationship with PMC includes the following (up-to-date as of the time of guide publication):

Brain

Epidemiologic Reviews

Eye

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science

Journal of Neurophysiology

Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Journal of Optometry

Neuro-Ophthalmology

Ophthalmic Research

Physiological Reviews

Author accepted manuscripts are submitted to PMC via a tool called NIHMS (NIH Manuscript Submission System). If you need help with this process, please reach out to a NECO librarian at [email protected].

No.  It must be the “final version that has been accepted for journal publication and includes all revisions resulting from the peer review process.”

Any research funded on or after January 23, 2023 that generates scientific data (defined as “any data needed to validate and replicate research findings”) requires compliance with the 2023 Data Management and Sharing Policy, “regardless of whether the data are used to support scholarly publications.” Reach out to the NECO Library at [email protected] if you want assistance with depositing your data in a public repository.

If the funding directly resulted in a publishable manuscript, and/or if it generated scientific data (defined as “any data needed to validate and replicate research findings”) then yes it does. If the training grant did not generate scientific data, then it does not apply.

The PI must deposit the data. If you and/or NECO are a subawardee, contact the PI to ensure the data you and/or NECO generated has been deposited. If you need help with the process, contact the NECO librarians at [email protected].

There are a number of public repositories that may be a suitable option. Please reach out to a librarian at [email protected] for assistance in this process.