A growing number of biomedical funding agencies now stipulate that research articles they have funded must be deposited in public repositories.

Oxford Journals helps authors be compliant with these deposition requirements through our optional open access initiative Oxford Open. Journals flagged 'PMC content' or PMC content coming soon' in this list will have their open access papers automatically deposited and made publically available in PubMed Central (PMC) by Oxford Journals.

Funding agencies with deposition requirements include:

National Institutes for Health (NIH)

• NIH Public Access Policy
The NIH Public Access policy is effective for articles accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. It ‘requires investigators funded by the NIH to submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication.’

• NIH and Oxford Journals
Any NIH-funded manuscripts submitted to Oxford Journals from 31st July 2008 onwards will be identified and tagged, and the final published version will then be sent to PMC for them to include on their platform. NIH-funded articles which are open access will be available immediately, and those which are not open access will be available after 12 months. To clarify, in both cases, the final published version of the NIH funded article will be hosted at PMC, rather than the original manuscript. Data feeds between PMC and the journals concerned have already been set up, and now Oxford Journals will work with our authors to identify which articles are funded by the NIH.

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UKPMC Funders Group (including The Wellcome Trust)

• The UKPMC funders group comprises eight funding bodies (Wellcome Trust, UK Medical Research Council, Arthritis Research Campaign, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Chief Scientist Office, British Heart Foundation, Department of Health, and Cancer Research UK).

• UKPMC Funders Group (including The Wellcome Trust) Public Access Policy
The Wellcome Trust 'requires electronic copies of any research papers that have been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, and are supported in whole or in part by Wellcome Trust funding, to be made freely accessible from the PMC database (and any other PMC International (PMCI) sites, such as UKPMC) as soon as possible, and in any event within six months of the journal publisher's official date of final publication.’ Similarly, the other organizations in the group require authors to deposit any research papers funded by them into UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) within six months.

• UKPMC Funders (including The Wellcome Trust) and Oxford Journals
As most Oxford Journals embargos are generally either 12 or 24 months, the only means for authors to comply with this policy is through open access publication via our Oxford Open initiative.* Please also note that as self-archiving policies vary from journal to journal authors will need to refer to the self-archiving policy of the relevant journal. UKPMC Funders Group authors do not need to deposit their articles into UKPMC themselves, if they pay for their article to be in Oxford Open. As Oxford Journals will deposit their article into PMC and the UKPMC site mirrors all content on the PMC site, their article will automatically be available on UKPMC.

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

• HHMI Public Access Policy
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) stipulates that if an article is published in a journal in the biological or biomedical sciences, it must be made available through PubMed Central within six months of publication.

• HHMI and Oxford Journals As most Oxford Journals embargos are generally either 12 or 24 months, the only means for authors to comply with this policy is through open access publication via our Oxford Open initiative.* Please also note that as self-archiving policies vary from journal to journal authors will need to refer to the self-archiving policy of the relevant journal. Oxford Journals is now depositing into PMC all open access papers published in 58 journals participating in the Oxford Open initiative. This means that HHMI-funded authors who publish open access in any of the journals listed here will therefore automatically comply with the mandate, and also will not need to deposit their articles into PMC themselves – Oxford Journals will do so on their behalf.

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UK’s Medical Research Council

• The Medical Research Council Public Access Policy
This policy requires that ‘for applications submitted from 1 October 2006 electronic copies of any research papers accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, which are supported in whole or in part by MRC funding, are deposited at the earliest opportunity – and certainly within six months – in UK PubMed Central (UKPMC).’

• The Medical Research Council and Oxford Journals
As our embargos are generally either 12 or 24 months, the only way to comply with this policy is through open access publication via our Oxford Open initiative.* As self-archiving policies vary from journal to journal you need to refer to the self-archiving policy of your journal.

* The exception to this rule is the Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology which has a six month embargo.