NIH Policy Change: All Funded Research Must Be Publicly Available Upon Publication Starting July 1, 2025

Published on July 1, 2025

Attention researchers! Effective today, July 1, 2025, research funded by NIH and accepted for publication on or after that date must be made publicly available upon publication without embargo via PubMed Central.

This date was moved up from December 31, 2025, to ensure radical transparency regarding the research NIH supports.

Read more from the NIH Director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya here: https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/nih-director/statements/accelerating-access-research-results-new-implementation-date-2024-nih-public-access-policy 

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