AHRQ Public Access Policy

On February 22, 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released the memorandum entitled "Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research." This memorandum requires Federal agencies to make the results of federally funded scientific research available to and useful for the public, industry, and the scientific community.

In response, AHRQ published its plan in 2015 for establishing a policy for public access to scientific publications and scientific data in digital format resulting from AHRQ funding, the AHRQ Public Access Policy for Scientific Publications in 2016, and AHRQ Data Management Plan Policy in 2020.

AHRQ intends, to the fullest extent possible and contingent on the availability of funds, to make available to the public all scientific publications and data arising from unclassified research and programs funded wholly or in part by AHRQ.

AHRQ plan for establishing a policy for public access to scientific publications and scientific data in digital format resulting from AHRQ funding
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This document is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ's) plan for establishing a policy for public access to scientific publications and scientific data in digital format resulting from AHRQ funding. AHRQ intends, to the fullest extent possible and contingent on the availability of funds, to make available to the public all scientific publications and data arising from unclassified research and programs funded wholly or in part by AHRQ.

AHRQ Public Access Policy for Scientific Publications
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The AHRQ Policy for Public Access to AHRQ funded Scientific Publications requires that AHRQ-funded authors submit an electronic version of the author’s final peer-reviewed accepted manuscript to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central (PMC) upon acceptance by the journal, and to be made publicly available within 12 months of the publisher’s date of publication. This Policy applies to AHRQ intramural researchers, extramural recipients of AHRQ grants and cooperative agreement awards; and AHRQ contractors conducting research. 

AHRQ Data Management Plan Policy
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This policy requires applicants for AHRQ new/competing grants and research contracts to include a DMP for managing, storing and disseminating the primary data, samples, physical collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course of research funded by AHRQ, or state why data management is not possible, as a component of their grant application or research contract proposal. AHRQ intramural researchers are also expected to submit a DMP with their research proposal. Moreover, all new grant and cooperative agreement applications, and contract proposals are encouraged to include a section detailing the applicants' progress and/or experience to-date with sharing data in digital format arising from previous AHRQ funding.

This policy applies to AHRQ intramural researchers and extramural recipients of AHRQ grants and research contracts, unless otherwise specified in the funding opportunity announcement or request for proposals. This policy applies to all scientific metadata in digital format arising from AHRQ funding.

This policy requires applicants for AHRQ new/competing grants and research contracts to include a DMP for managing, storing and disseminating the primary data, samples, physical collections and other supporting materials created or gathered in the course of research funded by AHRQ, or state why data management is not possible, as a component of their grant application or research contract proposal.

Resources

New NIHMS Publications Submission and Initial Approval video tutorial. The video, which provides a detailed demonstration of the manuscript submission process, including how to associate funding, upload required files, and approve the submission for NIHMS conversion to PMC-ready documents, is accessible via the NIHMS Tutorials page or directly at https://youtu.be/UwIrhRTj8-M.  NIHMS is the NIH Manuscript Submission system.