Writing Resources:

• NIH Public Access Policy
  • Guide to the new NIH Public Access Reporting Requirements
  • See also: Journals that Already Comply with the NIH Public Access Policy
• SHERPA
  • Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
• SPARC Author Addendum
  • Legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles.

Download Endnote using your WSU AccessID and password

Citation Guides:

• Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
• Instructions for Authors in the Health Sciences
• PubMed's Journal Browser — Journals indexed in Medline (PubMed)
  • Enter the journal name, MEDLINE abbreviation, a word from the title, or ISSN.

Other Writing Resources:

• NIH Public Access Policy
  • Guide to the new NIH Public Access Reporting Requirements
  • See also: Journals that Already Comply with the NIH Public Access Policy
• SHERPA
  • Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
• SPARC Author Addendum
  • Legal instrument that modifies the publisher’s agreement and allows you to keep key rights to your articles.

The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH-funded research. It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc).

To learn more about the NIH Public Access Policy view the 5 Things You Should Know About the NIH Public Access Policy article or go to the NIH Public Access Reporting Requirements Timesaver at https://library.wayne.edu/shiffman/resources/timesavers/nih/.

List of Journals that Submit All Final Funded Articles  

List of the journals that automatically deposit all NIH-funded final published articles in PubMed Central without author involvement.

 SHERPA/RoMEO 

This web site has information on the policies of many journals regarding PMC deposits.

 Publication Agreement Amendment   

Before you sign a publication agreement, use this  Copyright Addendum tool to retain rights to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy.

Methods of Complying 

This website is designed to help NIH grant recipients at WSU comply with NIH reporting requirements.

 NIH Manuscript Submission Help  

Includes FAQ and step-by-step slides.

Submitting an Article to PubMed Central  

12 minute step-by-step video.

Learn more about Scholarly Communications@WSU. 

• This guide provides information on Digital Commons, Author's Rights, Open Access, NIH Policy, and Copyright.

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