Editorial

NIH public access policy

Elsevier NIH policy statement

As a service to our authors, Elsevier will deposit to PubMed Central (PMC) author manuscripts on behalf of Elsevier authors reporting research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This service is a continuation of Elsevier’s 2005 agreement with the NIH when the NIH introduced their voluntary “Public Access Policy.”

The service will help authors comply with the (NIH) revised “Public Access Policy,” effective April 7, 2008. The NIH’s revised policy requires that NIH-funded authors