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Information for Authors of NIH-Funded Research Articles

On May 2, 2005, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began to implement its new "Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH Funded Research." This policy requests that authors reporting research that is funded (in whole or part) by a current NIH grant submit to NIH PubMed Central (PMC) manuscripts after they have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication in scientific journals. The “accepted manuscript” is the version of the manuscript after the author’s final revision but before post-acceptance editing and copyediting. The Policy is available online at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-05-045.html. The policy applies to manuscripts accepted for publication in Clinical Chemistry on or after May 2, 2005.

The policy requests that the release date to the public be within 12 months after the official date of final publication. Clinical Chemistry’s existing policy that has been in effect since the Journal first appeared online in 1998 is to make all content publicly available 12 months after publication date. If an author chooses to submit an accepted manuscript to PMC, he or she will be asked to indicate when that manuscript should be made available to the public. Consistent with our existing policy the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) grants the author permission to allow public release of the accepted manuscript through PMC 12 months after publication in Clinical Chemistry. NIH will be able to determine when 12 months have elapsed because AACC sends NIH electronic feeds of the article metadata upon publication in a journal issue.

Accepted manuscript and published article in Clinical Chemistry are protected by AACC’s copyright at the time of publication and thereafter. All copyright restrictions apply.

The author’s manuscript available on the PMC site is not the Clinical Chemistry article. This version of the manuscript may contain factual errors that were detected during the post-acceptance editing phase. Data, text, conclusions, tables, and figures may all differ from the published version available at www.clinchem.org. The final published version is the Clinical Chemistry article. Clinical Chemistry assumes no responsibility for earlier versions.

The AACC requires that the authors add the following disclaimer to the manuscript before sending it to PMC.

"This is an un-copyedited author manuscript copyrighted by The American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC). This may not be duplicated or reproduced, other than for personal use or within the rule of “Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials” (section 107, Title 17, U.S. Code) without permission of the copyright owner, AACC. The AACC disclaims any responsibility or liability for errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or in any version derived from it by the National Institutes of Health or other parties. The final publisher-authenticated version of the article will be made available at http://www.clinchem.org 12 months after its publication in Clinical Chemistry.”

Authors may contact Clinical Chemistry at clinchem{at}aacc.org with any questions related to submitting their accepted manuscript to PMC.