Navigating Public Access Policies
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Publishing agreements are updated regularly, and journals can switch between publishers changing their access policies. A list of compliant vs non-compliant publishers would become outdated quickly and would increase risk of non-compliance.
We recommend using the provided search tools and the “Picking a Publisher” guide to help decide who to publish with, as well as emailing the library directly at ehsl-reference@lists.utah.edu to verify publishing options.
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Each agreement gets negotiated separately usually as traditional read-only agreements come up for renewal. Based on what the publisher has to offer, what the libraries' budgets look like, and whatever funds the VPRs office wants to partner with, the agreements get created.
Agreements, and funding for APCs, are not guaranteed to be renewed every year and always subject to change.
If any NIH grant used to conduct your research is considered open on/after July 1, 2025 and after the manuscript has been peer reviewed you must adhere to the policy.
If only one NIH grant was used to conduct the research and it closed prior to July 1, 2025 then you can adhere to the 2008 policy (12-month public access embargo) even if the manuscript is peer reviewed after July 1, 2025.
If you’ve used several NIH grants in your research and some are open and others are closed then you must still comply with the current policy since some are still open.
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