Key Dates

Related Announcements

• December 17, 2024 - Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy: Government Use License and Rights. See Notice NOT-OD-25-049.
• August 23, 2024 - NIH will be re-opening the public comment period for NOT-OD-24-144 "Notice of Availability: National Institutes of Health Draft Public Access Policy". See Notice NOT-OD-24-166.
• February 21, 2023 - Request for Information on the NIH Plan to Enhance Public Access to the Results of NIH-Supported Research.  See Notice NOT-OD-23-091.

Issued by

Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD)

Purpose

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is soliciting comments from the public on the NIH Draft Public Access Policy and two supplemental draft guidance documents regarding (1) government use license and rights and (2) costs for publications.  The NIH Draft Public Access Policy builds upon NIH’s long history of providing public access to scholarly publications resulting from the research it supports and proposes additional steps to accelerate access.

Complete details on the Draft Policy may be found in the Federal Register:  https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/06/18/2024-13373/request-for-information-on-the-national-institutes-of-health-draft-public-access-policy

NIH will accept comments on the Draft Policy until August 19, 2024. Comments must be submitted electronically at: https://osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form-national-institutes-of-health-draft-public-access-policy/

Comments are voluntary and may be submitted anonymously. You may also voluntarily include your name and contact information with the response. Other than name and contact information, please do not include in the response any personally identifiable information or any information that you do not wish to make public. Proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should not be included in your response. After the Office of Science Policy (OSP) has finished reviewing the responses, the responses may be posted to the OSP website without redaction.. 

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

NIH Office of Science Policy

[email protected]