An Updated NIH and Publisher Guidance: What Authors Need to Know about NIH’s Public Access Policy In June, we published an FAQ for authors and librarians to give some guidance on how they might respond to NIH’s accelerated implementation of its public access plan, which requires immediate avail…

Latest on the new NIH #PublicAccessPolicy (effective July 1st, 2025) compliance submission process! What authors need to know before submitting their papers.

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Capping APCs May Backfire on NIH Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will cap the amount of direct funding support that researchers can spend on paying for article processing charges, or APCs. These fees ar...

A reaction to the NIH APC price caps announcement on @upstreamblog.bsky.social. Christopher Steven Marcum asks: "Will they backfire?" upstream.force11.org/capping-apcs...

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City Council debates budget submission deadline changes and transparency measures Council discusses shifting budget submission deadline from 45 to 60 days for transparency.

Elgin's City Council is grappling with a controversial proposal that could reshape budget submission timelines and transparency—what's at stake?

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Public Access Policy Mandates Zero Embargo Effective July 1 Effecive July 1, 2025, NIH-funded researchers must submit their peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central and without embargo on the publication date.

As of July 1, 2025, all peer-reviewed manuscripts funded by the NIH and accepted for journal publication must be made publicly available on PubMed Central with zero embargo immediately upon the official publication date.
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NIH-funded science must now be free to read instantly: what you should know US biomedical agency’s public-access policy kicks in on 1 July. Nature talks to specialists about how to comply.

"From 1 July, researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be required to make their scientific papers available to read for free as soon as they are published in a peer-reviewed journal."

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