The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it will check applications, proposals, and progress reports to ensure compliance with the Public Access Policy that went into effect in April. From the NIH Extramural Nexus:

Starting this month, NIH will be stepping up its efforts to ensure compliance for the Public Access Policy as described in a recent NIH Guide Notice. To ensure compliance with the Public Access Policy, NIH Program Officials will check applications, proposals or progress reports to see if citations of papers appearing to fall under this policy include a PubMed Central Identifier or appropriate alternative. NIH staff will inform the Program Directors/Principal Investigators (PDs/PIs) via an email if citations appear out of compliance and will copy the Institutional Business Official on the email.

If you are a PRI affiliate with questions about public access requirements, see our NIH Public Access Policy help page, or contact Tara Murray for assistance.