Managing NIH Public Access Compliance

The NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS) is the site to submit your final, peer-reviewed manuscript for deposit into PubMed Central, if the publisher does not deposit it for you. This is referred to as Method C submission. Include any supplementary files, images, and tables along with the manuscript.

The NIHMS process for submitting to PMC has multiple steps.

• The Author submits final peer-reviewed manuscript with tables, etc. to PMC via the NIH Manuscript System (NIHMS).
• At submission, NIHMS emails a PDF Receipt & summary of what has been submitted  to the author. The Author must confirm submission for processing to begin. The NIHMSID is assigned.
• When the processing is complete, the Author will be asked to review and approve the PMC-formatted manuscript.

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