Oxford pays OA fees for NIH-funded studies

Oxford Journals will help authors comply with the US NIH open access mandate by offering free-of-charge deposit into PubMed Central for any articles published in its biomedical journals that are funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

NIH-funded manuscripts submitted to Oxford Journals will be identified and tagged and the final published version sent to PubMed Central and UK PubMed Central.

NIH-funded articles which authors have paid to make open access will be available immediately, and the rest after 12 months.

In both cases, the final published version of the NIH-funded article rather than the original manuscript will be hosted at PubMed Central. Nature Publishing Group, by contrast, will be depositing the submitted manuscript.

Under the Oxford Open initiative, authors can choose to pay to publish their article under an immediate open access model. Fees start at £900 in the developed world.

Oxford Journals already automatically deposits biomedical journal articles in PubMed Central.
The new service is designed to support NIH-funded authors who do not choose immediate open access for their article.

Claire Bird, senior editor at Oxford Journals, said: “The majority of the biomedical journals we publish already enabled these authors to comply with the NIH public access policy, for example through self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of their article.

“But from now on we will be taking care of this on behalf of NIH-funded authors, and importantly we will be depositing the final published version of record.”

Oxford Journals has no plans to offer a service to deposit into institutional repositories.

“We are not planning to do this at the moment,” said Bird. “However, authors are usually entitled to deposit their article themselves provided they follow the relevant journal’s self-archiving policy.”

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