NIH Public Access Policy and You: Help

The NIH Office of Science Policy:

• First consult the Public Access Policy FAQs. Additional questions about the Policy can be directed to the Office of Science Policy inbox.

The NIH Office of Extramural Research

• Direct questions about compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy to the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER).

The NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS) Help Desk

• First consult the Public Access Policy FAQs. Additional questions about submitting to the NIHMS system can be directed to the NIHMS Help Desk, including problems or questions related to:

• Manuscript submissions and status check
• Manuscript approval
• Manuscript corrections (even if the manuscript is already in the PubMed Central database)

The NCBI Help Desk can assist with problems or questions related to:

• First consult the Public Access Policy FAQs.
• For additional questions on using My Bibliography to support reporting please refer to Managing Compliance to the NIH Public Access Policy..Topics covered include:

  • Checking your Publications Compliance Status

  • Initiating the Compliance Process

  • Associating Funding to your Publications

  • Filtering your Publications by Awards and by Citation Status

  • Viewing New Citations Linked to your Awards

  • Creating a Compliance Report PDF for your Bibliography

• Further questions about My Bibliography can be directed to the NCBI Help Desk. When requesting support, please be sure to include the full citation and account username (if needed).

The eRA Commons Service Desk can assist with problems or questions related to:

• accessing or managing grants in era Commons
• obtaining or accessing an era Commons account
• setting up a delegate for an era Commons user/account

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