The National Institutes of Health has the longest-standing Public Access Policy for a U.S. federal research-funding agency (policy established 2008), and served as a model for many other policies when the OSTP directed other federal funding agencies to develop public access plans in early 2013. The NIH is a major source of funding for UC San Diego Research.
In short, the NIH Public Access Policy is an open access mandate requiring that research papers describing research funded by the National Institutes of Health must be available to the public for free through PubMed Central within 12 months of publication. Failure to comply with this mandate can jeopardize continued and future funding.
NIH has issued a new Data Management and Sharing policy, effective January 25, 2023. This policy promotes data sharing in order to accelerate biomedical research. Researchers and institutions are expected to:
Further information to assist UC San Diego researchers with understanding the new requirements is available at UC San Diego Libraries' NIH Public Access Policy guide. NIH's comprehensive guidance on the new policy is available at sharing.nih.gov.
NIH indicates that it anticipates no changes to its new Data Management and Sharing policy as a result of the 2022 OSTP memo on public access to the results of federally-funded research.
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