2 minute read.NIH Mandate and PMCIDs
The NIH Public Access Policy says “When citing their NIH-funded articles in NIH applications, proposals or progress reports, authors must include the PubMed Central reference number for each article” and the FAQ provides some examples of this:
Examples:
Varmus H, Klausner R, Zerhouni E, Acharya T, Daar A, Singer P. 2003. PUBLIC HEALTH: Grand Challenges in Global Health. Science 302(5644): 398-399. PMCID: 243493
Zerhouni, EA. (2003) A New Vision for the National Institutes of Health. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (3), 159-160. PMCID: 400215
It’s interesting to note that on PMC itself both the [The NIH Public Access Policy says “When citing their NIH-funded articles in NIH applications, proposals or progress reports, authors must include the PubMed Central reference number for each article” and the FAQ provides some examples of this:
Examples:
Varmus H, Klausner R, Zerhouni E, Acharya T, Daar A, Singer P. 2003. PUBLIC HEALTH: Grand Challenges in Global Health. Science 302(5644): 398-399. PMCID: 243493
Zerhouni, EA. (2003) A New Vision for the National Institutes of Health. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (3), 159-160. PMCID: 400215
It’s interesting to note that on PMC itself both the][3] - but the DOI isn’t linked. Two things occur to me - 1) should Crossref map DOIs to PMCIDs and vice versa and make PMCIDs available in it’s query interfaces and 2) shouldn’t publishers ask that the PMC copy of the article link back to the publisher version? It would be very easy with the DOI.
Further reading
- Jul 1, 2024 – Celebrating five years of Grant IDs: where are we with the Crossref Grant Linking System?
- Sep 7, 2023 – Open Funder Registry to transition into Research Organization Registry (ROR)
- Nov 17, 2022 – How funding agencies can meet OSTP (and Open Science) guidance using existing open infrastructure
- Feb 1, 2021 – Event Data: A Plan of Action
- Dec 9, 2020 – Fast, citable feedback: Peer reviews for preprints and other record types
- Oct 13, 2020 – Calling all 24-hour (PID) party people!
- Aug 25, 2020 – Publishers, are you ready to ROR?
- Apr 27, 2020 – Memoirs of a DOI detective...it’s error-mentary dear members
