NIH Submission Guide 

This guide is intended as a starting point to assist you with the NIH submission process to PubMed.

For questions about this process, please contact:

Dawn Bastian Paschal, Coordinator for Digital Repositories Services, Morgan Library, (970) 491-1849
or
Cindy Mitchell, Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences Librarian, (970) 491-7163.

• To view CSU's cover letter to Publishers regarding the NIH Policy, click below:

  Recipients of funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH) should be aware of a new reporting requirement (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/) that went into effect on April 7, 2008.

    Principle investigators and researchers/authors associated with NIH funded projects must ensure that electronic versions of any peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funding and accepted for publication after that date are deposited in PubMed Central (PMC), NIH's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Full-text of the articles will than be made freely available to the public no later than 12 months after publication.

    The requirement applies to any article arising from NIH direct funding, including grants, contracts, training grants, subcontracts, etc. The requirement applies to all articles resulting from the funded research even if the principal investigator is not the author.

    In addition, beginning with May 25, 2008, anyone submitting an application, proposal, or progress report to NIH must include the PMC or NIH Manuscript Submission Reference Number when citing applicable articles that arise from their NIH funded research.

The new NIH policy is an important step forward for science, scientists, and the higher education community. Here are some of the benefits:

• Research in PubMed Central is available virtually to all Internet users, regardless of whether their library subscribes to the journal in which the research is published.
• Expands access to the estimated 80,000 articles that result each year from NIH funding for use in research, teaching and patient care.
• PubMed Central deposit is a convenient substitute for the submission of print copies of articles in fulfillment of grant reporting requirements.
• A consequence of making work more visible among scientists around the world is greater impact.
• The National Library of Medicine will provide long-term digital archiving of articles in PubMed central, ensuring tomorrow's researchers can build on today's findings.

Library Links

• CSU Libraries Homepage

NIH Links

• NIH Public Access Homepage
• NIH’s Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research
• PubMed Central
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

   

 CSU Programs & Departments

•  Office of Sponsored Programs Research Announcements

Publisher Links

• Journals that submit NIH funded articles
• Open Access Directory/Publisher Policies on NIH funded authors