Do I have to pay an Open Access fee in order to meet NIH compliance?
Some commercial publishers (e.g., Springer) will offer to publish an article using an Open Choice or Open Access publishing option. An option like this from a commercial publisher involves a fee and will many times result in the publisher’s PDF being submitted to PubMed Central. This is NOT the only way to be in compliance with the NIH mandate. Though there are many benefits to open access publishing, an offer like this may mislead authors to believe that they must pay a fee to be in compliance. In this situation, the authors can simply submit their final peer-reviewed manuscript themselves through the NIH Manuscript Submission System if they do not wish to pay the Open Access fee. For articles that are accepted for publication, if the copyright transfer agreement does not specify that the author has the rights to submit the manuscript to PubMed Central, MSK authors should amend the agreement per MSK policy see suggested wording below: “The Journal acknowledges that the Author retains
Some commercial publishers (e.g., Springer) will offer to publish an article using an Open Choice or Open Access publishing option. An option like this from a commercial publisher involves a fee and will many times result in the publisher’s PDF being submitted to PubMed Central. This is NOT the only way to be in compliance with the NIH mandate. Though there are many benefits to open access publishing, an offer like this may mislead authors to believe that they must pay a fee to be in compliance. In this situation, the authors can simply submit their final peer-reviewed manuscript themselves through the NIH Manuscript Submission System if they do not wish to pay the Open Access fee. For articles that are accepted for publication, if the copyright transfer agreement does not specify that the author has the rights to submit the manuscript to PubMed Central, MSK authors should amend the agreement per MSK policy – see suggested wording below: “The Journal acknowledges that the Author retain
