• Reasonable publication costs that are allowable may be requested in the budget for the project.
• Submission of Author Accepted Manuscripts to PubMed Central remains free for authors.
• Unallowable costs:
• Journal or publisher fees that arise during the course of the publication process for the sole purpose of submitting the Author Accepted Manuscript to PubMed Central
• Costs for services (e.g., peer review) for which there is no resulting, publicly available product
• Costs for services incurred after closeout of the award, even for an Author Accepted Manuscript subject to the NIH Public Access Policy
• Costs for publishing services that are charged differentially because an Author Accepted Manuscript is subject to the NIH Public Access Policy or the work is the result of NIH funding (this likely includes the American Chemical Society's Article Development Charge)
• Compliance with the Policy does not require the payment of an open access fee to a journal.
