Norka Ruiz Bravo, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research, recently sent an email to NIH principal investigators reminding them of the NIH Public Access Policy. One part of the email that may be of interest:

“If you publish through a journal listed under http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm, there might be a slight delay in assignment of a PMCID. That is okay. We have signed agreements with these journals that allow NIH to resolve submission with them without your involvement. To facilitate your Program Officer’s job, we ask that you indicate ‘PMC Journal- In Process’ until the PMCID is available. “

To learn more the PMCID, consult “How to Locate and Cite the PMCID.”