To achieve compliance under the updated NIH Public Access policy, the Author Accepted Manuscript or the Final Published Article must be submitted to PMC for public availability without embargo upon the official date of publication.
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries have negotiated a series of open access publisher agreements that waive article processing charges (APCs) and allow Vanderbilt and VUMC corresponding authors to publish open access with many major publishers, e.g., the American Medical Association (JAMA Network Journals), Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Sage, and Lippincott Journals.
AUTHOR CONSIDERATIONS
- To confirm that the journal in which you plan to publish will automatically deposit articles on behalf of the author, consult the journal homepage or the Agreement Types section of the PMC Policies
- Review the VU open access publisher agreement list to confirm if there will be any associated APCs prior to submitting your manuscript to a journal
- Ensure you always provide research funder details and applicable grant number(s) to ensure that publishers recognize, and deposit NIH funded articles.
LEARN MORE
- Additional information can be found on the NIH Public Access Policy FAQ or at the Authors Alliance NIH Public Access Policy: Q&A for Authors.
- Vanderbilt authors can learn more about the Heard Libraries’ agreements supporting open access publishing in this research guide.
- Questions about open access publishing should be directed to Eskind Biomedical Library via the Ask Biomedical form.
- Questions about the NIH PAC policy, submitting an author accepted manuscript to the NIH Manuscript Submission System or linking in NCBI should be routed to support.services@vumc.org.
Additional information and resources can be found on StarBRITE – PAC Dashboard and other resources
