Public Access Compliance Monitor

The Public Access Compliance Monitor (PACM or “compliance monitor”) is a service from the National Library of Medicine that helps users at NIH-funded institutions locate and track the compliance of funded papers with the NIH Public Access Policy at an institutional level. Whether you are looking for a quick snapshot of your institution’s compliance rate or want to take an active role in helping your investigators comply with the policy, PACM can help you get the information you need.

To gain access to the compliance monitor, users must first be assigned a compliance reports (“PACR”) role by an administrator at their institution who is authorized to assign roles in the NIH eRA Commons grants administration system. Users with a PACR role will then have access to the compliance reports for their institution.

PACM provides users with a list of all PubMed citations associated with an institution’s NIH funding and classifies the articles according to compliance status (i.e., Compliant, Non-Compliant, In Process). The compliance monitor also provides detailed information about each article including:

• a full citation including the PMID (PubMed ID) and link to the PubMed record
• associated grants and principal investigators
• NIHMSID (NIH Manuscript Submission Reference Number), where available
• PMCID (PubMed Central ID), where available
• key names and dates in the NIHMS, where available
• article compliance status
• method A status
• journal publisher
  

Compliance reports can be downloaded from these lists and the data filtered based on an institution’s needs.

For more information on the PACR role, the compliance monitor, and the available reports, see the User Guide: //www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/utils/pacm/static/pacm-user-guide.pdf.

Additonally, an overview video of PACM from The NIH Public Access Policy for Librarians Webinar is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKTv1Wczv3o#t=2760.

Please direct questions concerning the Public Access Compliance Monitor to PublicAccess@nih.gov.