Deposit agreements: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

We submit the author’s Accepted Manuscript (AM). This is defined as being the ‘final peer-reviewed manuscript, which was accepted for publication and that reflects any author-agreed changes made in response to the peer review’.

Via the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS).

Yes. Upon initial submission, the NIHMS system will send an email notification to the Principal Investigator (PI) of the NIH grant. If the PI was not an author of the paper in question, the corresponding author will instead receive the notification.

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.

Yes, the NIHMS administrators might reject a submission following first reviewer approval phase. Taylor & Francis will receive notification of the rejection and take corrective action (if appropriate) before either resubmitting for the reviewer’s approval or cancelling the submission.

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.

We make all submissions under a 12-month embargo from final publication as standard.

You must declare funding information via the ScholarOne or Editorial Manager peer review systems (pre-acceptance), or our own E-Copyright System or CATS author interface (post-acceptance).

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.

You can select either. The NIH is a hierarchy, with NIH at the top level and the constituent Institutes, Centers and Offices below. Selecting one of more of these will allow us to identify your article as NIH-funded.

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.