Deposit agreements: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Taylor & Francis and the NIH
As part of our author support, Taylor & Francis deposits articles to PubMed Central (PMC) on behalf of all authors reporting National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research. This service is offered as part of our 2008 deposit agreement with the NIH.

This will therefore help you comply with the NIH revised ‘Public Access Policy’, which came into force on April 7, 2008. The policy mandates NIH-funded authors to submit to PMC, or have submitted on their behalf, at the point of acceptance, their peer-reviewed author manuscripts, to appear on PMC no later than 12 months after final publication.
If your article is affected by this policy we will deliver to PMC the Accepted Manuscript (AM) of your work. We will also authorize the Accepted Manuscript’s public access posting 12 months after final publication in print or electronic form, whichever is sooner. After the deposit by Taylor & Francis, authors will then receive further communications from the NIH about the submission.
Have you heard about the changes to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application process?
Any new and renewed applications will need to include a data management and sharing plan.
Frequently asked questions
This ‘reviewer’ will then be required to approve, in turn, both the initial PDF receipt of the submitted manuscript files and the web version of the manuscript as it will eventually appear on PMC no more than 12 months after final publication in the journal.
View an example of an NIH-funded manuscript on PMC. You can find further information for authors about the submission and approval process on the NIHMS site.
Reasons for NIHMS rejection might include:
1) Duplicate submission
2) Missing/incomplete title page
3) Portions of the manuscript contain anonymized text
4) Missing figures or tables, including missing captions
5) Corrupt or missing special characters
6) Missing supplementary material
NIH authors can minimize the possibility of NIHMS rejections (and the associated delays) by ensuring manuscript files which are put forward for production following acceptance by the journal are complete and do not contain anonymized text.
Please take every care to match the funding body to the appropriate entry in the drop-down list. Typing both the full name of the funding agency or the appropriate acronym should narrow your options and help you to select the correct funder. For example, you can find the National Cancer Institute on the drop-down by typing either ‘National Cancer Institute’ or ‘NCI’.
Matching your funder with the correct entry in this registry will allow us to help you comply with funding mandates such as the NIH Public Access Policy.
Please also enter the NIH grant number in full where indicated, if available. Intramural authors of the NIH should enter their NIH Employee ID in lieu of an NIH grant number.
For example, if you received funding from the National Institute on Aging you could select ‘National Institutes of Health’ on the funder list. Alternatively, you could be more specific and select ‘National Institute on Aging’.
See the NIH site for the current list of NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices.
Please note our funder lists are based on the Crossref’s Funder Registry and are updated regularly to reflect the latest iteration of the registry.
Publishing tips, direct to your inbox
Expert tips and guidance on getting published and maximizing the impact of your research. Register now for weekly insights direct to your inbox.

Open access publishing definitions

Get to know open access publishing definitions with our quick guide.