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§282c Public Access to Funded Investigators’ Final Manuscripts
Title 42 › Chapter 6A— PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter III— NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part A— National Institutes of Health › § 282c
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Starting this fiscal year, NIH must require its funded researchers to submit their final peer‑reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central when the papers are accepted. Those manuscripts must be made public within 12 months of the official publication date, and NIH must carry out the policy in a way that follows copyright law.
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Title 42, §282c
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The Director of the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) shall require in the current fiscal year and thereafter that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.
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Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2009, and also as part of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009, and the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.
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42 U.S.C. § 282c
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
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Apr 5, 2026
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