In response to a 2022 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy memorandum, all U.S. federal funding agencies must update their public access policies by December 31, 2025. These changes will require immediate public access to publications and data resulting from federally funded research.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that its updated public access policy will take effect July 1, 2025—a shift that has drawn significant attention from the research community due to the short notice.
Join Nancy Sims and Allison Langham-Putrow from the University of Minnesota Libraries for a timely and informative session about what these changes mean for researchers. They will present information on the new NIH public access policy and the latest updates surrounding it and will discuss the UMN Open Access Policy and describe the options authors have to comply with NIH and other upcoming public access policies. There will also be time for questions and discussion.
Topics will include:
- University of Minnesota Open Access Policy
- New NIH Policy and latest updates: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy: Publication Costs
- Revision: Notice of Updated Effective Date for the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy
- Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy: Government Use License and Rights
- Researcher options and actions
