Authors may use one of these four methods to ensure deposit in PubMed Central

• Method A: Journal deposits final published articles in PMC without author involvement. The PMC Journal List lists journals that deposit for authors. (Since journals routinely leave and join this list, check with the journal publisher to be sure that this deposit will happen.)
• Method B: Author instructs publisher to deposit specific final published article in PMC
• Method C: Author deposits Author Accepted Manuscript in PMC via the NIH Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS)
• Method D: Publisher deposits Author Accepted Manuscript. Author completes submission process via NIHMS

In all cases the NIH Awardee is responsible for assuring that the article is deposited.

For more details see Submitting to PubMed Central, from NIH

The My Bibliography tool within My NCBI allows researchers to add citations and link awards to those citations. Researchers can link their eRA Commons accounts to My NCBI to track the compliance status of citations in My Bibliography. Follow these steps:

1. Use your eRA Commons account to log in to My NCBI. (If you would like to use an existing My NCBI account, link your eRA Commons account to it so that award information will appear in My Bibliography.)
2. Add citations to My Bibliography.
3. Add awards to those citations and start or update compliance if necessary.
4. Create a Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR) that shows compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy.

Starting in May 2025, all senior and key personnel named in NIH grants must link their eRA profiles to their ORCID iD (NIH’s Adoption of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch) See the ERA Commons instructions. 

ORCID iDs must also be linked with the researcher's university, See instructions for UVM researchers.