Update: Wiley has removed the sentence about authors being in violation of their publishing agreement if they deposit themselves before the end of the embargo period. All links below, unless otherwise indicated should point to Wiley's current policy.
Wiley has significantly revised their policies and practices:
Wiley no longer supports author self archiving (Green OA) as a route to to comply with the NIH Public Access Mandate, as part of this change Wiley has stopped participating in the NIH PubMed Central (PMC) selective deposit program, for all paywalled articles.
Wiley's new authors agreement attempts to prohibit authors from depositing their authors accepted manuscript, without paying Wiley an article processing charge (APC). As of 07-02-2025 Wiley's APCs range from a low of $700.00 to as high as $6,730.00.
Wiley will continue to deposit articles on your behalf for journals fully indexed in (PMC) and any Gold Open Access (OA) journals*. If you are publishing in a Wiley hybrid journal in order to comply with the NIH Public Access mandate you will need to select the OA publishing option and pay the corresponding APC.
If you are publishing in one of the handful of "free" journals published by Wiley you will need to use the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS) to submit to PMC at the time of acceptance of your article.
*Wiley currently has around 50 journals that are either Diamond Open Access or permit a CC-BY license for authors with a funder mandate. You can see those titles by filtering the list to only display "APCs currently waived"
Below is the language was recently removed Wiley's policy :
"For authors wishing to publish via the subscription route, authors are responsible for ensuring compliance with Wiley's Self-Archiving policy as outlined in the Author Agreement. Authors will need to arrange deposit directly with PMC."
"Our previous PMC deposit policy required a deposit process for NIH-funded, non-OA articles with a 12-month embargo. Because of our new policy, this process will no longer be in effect. Authors who deposit before the end of the embargo period for non-OA articles will be in violation of their license agreement."
You can see Wiley's previous policy on the way back machine (archived 05-22-2025)
*Wiley currently has around 50 journals that are either Diamond Open Access or permit a CC-BY license for authors with a funder mandate. You can see those titles by filtering the list to only display "APCs currently waived"
The American Chemical Society has announced a "bridging solution" through August 31, 2025. Authors' of manuscripts already in progress and those submitted through 08-31-2025 will be able to immediately deposit their author accepted manuscript (AAM) to PubMed Central (PMC) immediately upon acceptance. As far as we know, ACS will not deposit on the authors behalf, therefore authors will need to use the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS) to submit to PMC.
This "bridging solution" only applies to journals not covered by the WVU Libraries OA agreement with ACS. However, you should still check the individual journals policies and procedures to ensure they will deposit the AAM or version of record article in PMC on your behalf. If that is not the case you would still need NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS) to submit to PMC.
In order to take advantage of the program:
"After acceptance, authors will receive a ‘Journal Publishing Agreement’ prompt referencing the institution they are affiliated with and asking if they wish to retain copyright. NIH-funded authors will simply need to choose, “Yes, I wish to retain copyright and be allowed to immediately deposit the manuscript.” During this sponsored period, there will be no publication cost for the author, while still enabling immediate green OA publishing; ACS Publications will cover the standard Article Development Charge during this period."
Please note that after August 31 if you are publishing in a ACS journal not covered by WVU OA agreement you will most likely be required to pay an APC or ADC to comply with the NIH Public Access mandate and ACS authors agreement.
It remains on open question if ACS' Article Development Charge (ADC) is an allowable cost under the NIH guidance which has two potentially relevant provisions:
“Journal or publisher fees that arise during the course of the publication process for the sole purpose of submitting the Author Accepted Manuscript to PubMed Central are not allowable costs.”
“costs for publishing services that are charged differentially because an Author Accepted Manuscript is subject to the NIH Public Access Policy or the work is the result of NIH funding are unallowable because charges must be levied impartially on all items published by the journal, whether or not under a federal award (GPS 7.9.1).”
You can read a more detailed analysis on the Author Alliance Update
We advise that if you are considering publishing in an ACS publication after August, 2025 you should contact your program officer about your ability to use grant funds to pay an ADC.
Springer Nature has significantly revised their policies and practices:
Springer Nature no longer supports author self archiving (Green OA) as a route to comply with the NIH Public Access Mandate. Quoting from their FAQ
"Publishing via the subscription route is not a viable option: Authors publishing in Springer Nature hybrid journals should select gold OA at the point of acceptance in order to comply with any immediate access policy requirements. If you opt to publish via the subscription (non-OA) publication route, you will sign our standard subscription licence terms. Because authors warrant under our subscription licensing terms that they haven’t committed to licensing any version of their article under a licence inconsistent with the terms of our agreement – including the applicable embargo period – publication under the subscription model isn’t suitable for authors whose funders require no embargo. This includes situations such as prior agreements with a funder (e.g. NIH) to make the article immediately accessible in a repository."
Springer Nature will continue to deposit articles published in Gold OA journal and hybrid journal, when selecting OA and paying an APC on the authors behalf to PubMed Central.
In other words Springer Nature will not longer accept articles from NIH funded authors without the payment of an Article Processing Charge
If you have already had an article published that is subject to the current immediate public access policy Springer Nature urges authors to add Gold OA retrospectively.
" Retrospective gold OA publication: If your funder requires immediate access, the subscription publication route is not compatible with immediate public access policies, such as NIH’s policy. If your article was published via the subscription route but should have been published via the immediate gold open access route, it is usually possible to retrospectively make the article openly available via the gold route on the journal’s website. You should ensure that you have sufficient funding to cover the APC. To request retrospective open access for an article that has already been published, please complete our retrospective open access order form."
Lippincott includes the following statement: however, the preceding paragraphs indicate that the two routes to compliance are Gold OA or a 12-month embargo.
"Effective July 1, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require authors to submit an electronic version of their accepted manuscript to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. The manuscript must be made publicly available without embargo on the official date of publication.
Authors can comply with this policy by publishing their article as open access. In such cases, the journal will deposit the final published article to PubMed Central on behalf of the authors, ensuring public availability without embargo on the official date of publication.
If the article is not published as open access, authors can comply with the above stated NIH policy by depositing their accepted manuscript to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication."
"For all articles that report research supported by US government agencies or Wellcome Trust, ASCO deposits the Just Accepted version to NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) after transmission to production. Afterwards, publication on PMC will occur immediately upon online publication, where the articles can be accessed and read by the public free of charge."
From the Author's Alliance An Updated NIH and Publisher Guidance : Elsevier has deleted its page explaining how it would deposit articles to the PMC (archived copy from 5/18/25) and now simply refers authors to its Journal Article Sharing page, which indicates that the only pathway to zero-embargo sharing it to purchase Elsevier’s Gold OA option.
