Public Access Expansion and PMC

Last month marked the third anniversary of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum directing Federal agencies with more than $100 million in annual research and development (R&D) expenditures to develop plans for increasing public access to the results of the research they support, including scholarly publications. As a result of this directive, in 2015, PMC started providing support as a public access repository for funding agencies beyond the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). As of March 2015, the following additional agencies are using the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system to facilitate the deposit in PMC of peer-reviewed manuscripts that fall under their public access policies: Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ/HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA/HHS), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Additionally, the following additional HHS and other federal agencies have announced public access plans and committed to using PMC as the repository for agency-funded publications: Administration for Community Living (ACL/HHS) Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR/HHS) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) PMC will continue to update the list of participating funding agencies at Public Access and PMC as these agencies begin implementation of their policies. More information about the current status of public access expansion as a result of the OSTP memo can be found on the White House blog.