Information dated : 9 July 2008

Publisher Home Page Link : http://www.nature.com/npg/

Is this publisher NIH compliant ? : yes

Is this publisher on the NIH PubMedCentral list of publishers? no

Does this publisher deposit to PMC for authors? YES, policy changed 8 July 2008

• Initially, the service will be open to authors publishing original research articles in Nature, the Nature research titles and the clinical research section of Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine . NPG will then extend the service to society and academic journals in its portfolio that wish to participate.
• For eligible authors who opt-in during the submission process, NPG will deposit the accepted version of the author’s manuscript on acceptance, setting a public release date of 6-months post-publication. There will be no charge to authors or funders for the service

Does this publisher charge for providing the upload service to PMC ? no

Does this publisher allow author submissions to PubMedCentral? yes, for public release six months after publication.

Version of manuscript allowed to be deposited to PMC : the author's version of the accepted paper (the unedited manuscript)

Publishers NIH Policy Link :

• New Policy dated 8 July 2008
• http://www.nature.com/press_releases/archive.html

http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html

Synopsis :

• When a manuscript is accepted for publication in an NPG journal, authors are encouraged to submit the author's version of the accepted paper (the unedited manuscript) toPubMedCentral or otherappropriate funding body's archive, for public release six months after publication. In addition, authors are encouraged to archive this version of the manuscript in their institution's repositories and, if they wish,on their personal websites, also six months after the original publication. In all these cases, authors should cite the publication reference and DOI number on any deposited version, and provide a link from it to the URL of the published article on the journal's website (see publications A-Z index).

Journal Titles :

• http://www.nature.com/siteindex/index.html