Submission of Final Edited Published Articles to PubMed Central Implemented by The Endocrine Society on Behalf of Authors

Starting January 1, 2008, The Endocrine Society is depositing the final edited published articles of all accepted manuscripts funded by the National Institutes of Health to PubMed Central (PMC) on behalf of authors who indicate NIH funding. These authors will not be obligated to submit their unedited accepted manuscripts to the PMC archive as required by the NIH Public Access Policy (NOT-OD-08-033). The Endocrine Society instead will deposit the final edited article for you. Following the 12-month embargo from the print issue publication, PMC will post the HTML version and NIH will provide a link to the journal on the PMC website.

The abstract will be posted by PubMed soon after the manuscript is accepted by the journal. PMC will supply a reference number (called PMCID) with the abstract for the use on any NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports. Authors will find the PMCID on PubMed at the bottom right side of their abstract.

If you wish to submit your accepted unedited manuscript to PubMed Central, click here.

The Endocrine Society Supports Sustainable Open Access

The Endocrine Society supports the widest possible dissemination of science. Currently, accepted manuscripts are posted immediately after acceptance and free of charge as Rapid Electronic Publications at our journals online Web site. These accepted manuscripts are discoverable by search engines such as Google. Your published accepted manuscripts therefore already are openly available to the research community and to the public at The Endocrine Society journals online Web site, independent of any dissemination through PMC.

Our own Open Access policy was implemented only after a decade of considerable planning, effort, and financial cost. It represents a publication model currently being tested. We continue to monitor any effect that model may have on the success and viability of The Endocrine Society and its journals. As such, even though The Endocrine Society operationally supports Open Access to a degree that exceeds most other publishers, we fully support the right of our fellow publishers to decide when publications can be made available.

This is the policy as of this writing. We will keep you apprised of any changes in the NIH policy or procedures. If you have questions about the specific NIH submission requirements, please see http://nihms.nih.gov. For questions regarding The Endocrine Society policies, please contact the editorial office of the journal to which you are submitting.

Revised and posted: 4 March 2008