NIH Public Access Policy – Tips from the UCSD BML

How the New NIH Public Access Law Affects UCSD Researchers
As of April 7, 2008, researchers receiving grant money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have to submit copies of their resulting research papers to PubMed Central (PMC) when their papers are accepted for publication in a journal. PMC will then make these papers freely available [...]

NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research (RC1)

NIH has received new funds for Fiscal Years 2009 and 2010 as part of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), Pub. L. No. 111-5. The NIH has designated at least $200 million in fiscal years 2009 – 2010 for a new initiative called the NIH Challenge Grants in Health and [...]

NIH requires PubMed Central ID#s on all proposals

New PMID-PMCID Converter available
As of May 25, 2008, NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports must include the PubMed Central ID number (PMCID) when citing a paper that falls under the NIH public access policy that is authored or co-authored by the investigator, or arose from the investigator’s NIH award.
You can get find individual PMCID numbers [...]

NIH Public Access Policy – How to Comply

 Visit the UC San Diego website about this important issue.
http://biomed.ucsd.edu/nihpolicy.htm