The NIH Library offers article processing charge (APC) support to NIH employees for the following publishers:
Company of Biologists
Unlimited APC coverage is available for both hybrid and fully open access journals and includes the following journal titles:
- Biology Open
- Development
- Disease models & mechanisms
- Journal of cell science
- Journal of experimental biology
To participate, submit a manuscript to a Company of Biologists journal as a corresponding author and use an official NIH email address. Payment will be transacted directly with the publisher; no further involvement is required by the NIH author.
Microbiology Society
Unlimited APC coverage is available for both hybrid and fully open access journals and includes the following journal titles:
- Access Microbiology
- International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology
- Journal of general virology
- Journal of medical microbiology
- Microbial genomics
- Microbiology
To participate, submit a manuscript to a Microbiology Society journal as a corresponding author and use an official NIH email address. Payment will be transacted directly with the publisher; no further involvement is required by the NIH author.
PLOS
The NIH Library will approve one publication (APC) fee payment for an NIH corresponding author each calendar year for articles approved by PLOS.
To participate, submit a manuscript to a PLOS journal as a corresponding author and use an official NIH email address. Payment will be transacted directly with the publisher; no further involvement is required by the NIH author.
Springer, Nature and BioMed Central
The NIH Library will approve one publication (APC) fee payment for an NIH corresponding author each calendar year for articles approved by Springer, Nature, and BioMed Central (BMC) fully open access journals (no hybrid journals).
- Springer Fully Open Access journals
- Nature Fully Open Access journals
- BioMed Central (BMC) Fully Open Access journals
To participate, submit a manuscript to a Springer, Nature or BMC fully open access journal as a corresponding author and use an official NIH email address. Payment will be transacted directly with the publisher; no further involvement is required by the NIH author.
NIH Public Access Policy
NIH Public Access Policy requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. To help advance science and improve human health, the policy requires that these papers be accessible to the public on PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication.