NIH-funded authors are highly encouraged to consider the following points before  submitting their NIH-funded work to a journal for the peer review process :

What submission method will be used?
What version of the work will be posted to PubMed Central?
Who will submit the work?
When will it be submitted?
Who will approve the submission?
When can the paper be [...]

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Are you an author? Do you know what you are agreeing to when you sign a publication agreement form? To learn more about your rights as a an author,  read:  An Introduction to Publication Agreements for Authors by Timothy K. Armstrong. 
Many publishers allow authors to retain a number of rights to their work. Some examples [...]

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Looking for ways to assess your impact as an author? Take a look at some of the following resources:
SCOPUS (subscription required)
SCOPUS provides an Author Search option that allows for a listing of articles, web sources and patents that cite a particular author’s work since 1996. The Citation Tracker feature also allows for generation of a Citation [...]

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