PNAS Open Access Option

Each PNAS Institutional Site License (online subscription) automatically includes an Institutional Open Access Membership. Corresponding authors from institutions with 2009 Site Licenses/Open Access Memberships will receive a discounted price of $850, compared to our regular Open Access Fee of $1,200, to make their papers immediately free online.


Authors
Authors of accepted manuscripts who are interested in publishing their article as Open Access should confirm their subscription status with their institutional librarian. If their institution has a site license, the author should note the reduced fee ($850) on the PNAS billing forms included with the author proofs.


PNAS and NIH Public Access
PNAS complies with the NIH Public Access Policy and extends access even further. PNAS automatically deposits the final, published version of all its content, regardless of funding, in PubMed Central (PMC) and makes it free at both PMC and PNAS just 6 months after publication.

Authors are not required to deposit their manuscripts in PMC because PNAS will automatically deposit the final published version for public release (see http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm for the full list of journals that have committed to make the final published version of every NIH-funded article publicly available in PMC within 12 months of publication, without author involvement). It is important for authors who wish to deposit a manuscript in PMC to give PMC a release date of 6 months after print publication in PNAS.

For authors who want their work made free at both PMC and PNAS immediately upon online publication, it is important to choose the PNAS "open access" option when the paper is accepted by PNAS, and to give PMC a release date of online publication in PNAS. The open access surcharge is $850 for authors from institutions with a site license/open access membership.

When citing a paper in NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports that arose from an NIH award, authors must include the PubMed Central reference number (PMCID). If you publish in a journal such as PNAS that makes the final published version of your paper available in PMC, a PMCID may not be assigned until several weeks after publication. During this time, please indicate compliance with the policy by indicating “PMC Journal – In Process.” Once the PMCID has been assigned, it will be listed in the lower right corner of the AbstractPlus view of PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/). If the paper is not yet publicly available on PMC, the abstract view will also list the date the article will become available.

Please see our editorial (www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/102/15/5303) and our copyright agreement (www.pnas.org/misc/copyright.pdf) for details. For more information about the NIH Public Access Policy, please see http://publicaccess.nih.gov/FAQ.htm.


Librarians
A number of librarians have told PNAS that they support the Open Access initiative, and we hope that it will provide an incentive for institutions to adopt site licenses, to which we have given added value. Please help us inform authors at your institution about the PNAS Open Access Option and the Site License/Open Access Membership discount. PNAS is a break-even operation and relies on both author fees and subscription fees to cover its operating costs.

The 2009 PNAS site license descriptions and rates are available at http://www.pnas.org/subscriptions.


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