Biomedical articles that have been published in Oxford Journals and funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) will now be deposited into PubMedCentral (PMC).

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP) said the new development will “help authors comply with the public access policies of the NIH”. Under NIH policy rules, authors who have received funding from the body are required to make their peer reviewed research available in the repository within 12 months of publication.

Commenting on the announcement, Martin Richardson, managing director of Oxford Journals said, ‘already all of our open access articles are being deposited into PMC. Now any NIH-funded authors who publish their articles in one of our journals will not need to deposit them into PMC themselves – Oxford Journals will do so for no charge on their behalf.’

Manuscripts which are NIH funded and already open access will be available immediately on PMC. However, only the final published articles rather than original submitted versions will be available from the PMC repository. Oxford Journals said they will collaborate with authors in order to identify other NIH funded articles.