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NIH Public Access Policy

The 2024 NIH Public Access Policy, effective July 1, 2025, mandates that all NIH-funded peer-reviewed manuscripts be made immediately publicly available in PubMed Central upon publication, eliminating any embargo period.

FAQs

As a supplement to this guide, the library has developed a set of FAQs to support compliance with the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy. It is provided below as a PDF document.

If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to Scholarly Communications Librarian, Nancy Shin, at nshin4@jhu.edu.