Premium accounts now available! Sign up and create a premium account. Read more Close

Advertisement

Image

The NIH 2025 Public Access Policy: Immediate access, unequal costs

Journal content Created on 01 Jun 2026 PLOS Medicine

by Caitlin R. Ryus, Caroline Raymond King, Edward R. Melnick

The NIH 2025 Public Access Policy eliminates embargo periods for federally funded research, expanding who can read science. Yet without addressing article processing charges and market concentration, the policy risks creating new barriers to who can afford to perform and publish their science. In this Perspective, Caitlin Ryus and colleagues discuss the NIH 2025 Public Access Policy, highlighting that while expanding who can read science, the policy risks creating new barriers to who can afford to perform and publish their science.

Edward R. Melnick

Advertisement

Stats

  • Recommendations n/a n/a positive of 0 vote(s)
  • Views 17
  • Comments 0

Recommended by

  • No recommendations yet.

Post a comment

You need to be signed in to post comments. You can sign in here.

Comments

There are no comments yet.

Advertisement