One of the missions of the ONR is to assist faculty and postdoctoral scholars with the dissemination of their scholarly pursuits. When faculty or postdoctoral fellows are involved in a book publishing project, the ONR is available to provide assistance with the following:

• Formatting chapters according to the publisher guidelines (on the final version to be submitted)
• Checking references in the text and in the reference list (on the final version to be submitted)
• Contacting and communicating with the contributors to the book and with the publisher
• Handling correspondence:  Sending out letters and emails to contributors and to the publisher
• Coordinating work on the book project
• Meeting with the authors and/or publisher about issues pertaining to the book project
• Providing feedback on book proposals

Limits of responsibility.  The ONR is NOT available to assist with the following aspects of book publishing:

• Creating book proposals

Scope of support.  The Office for Nursing Research can provide assistance with poster creation. Specifically, the ONR Secretary will:

1. Provide assistance with resizing posters
2. Provide suggestions for improving poster appearance, including layout, tables and figures
3. Check to ensure that posters adhere to conference guidelines
4. Make appropriate arrangements to print the poster.

Procedure for requesting support.

1. Two months before your conference date, please forward a copy of your abstract to the ONR Secretary.  In this email, please provide the following:
   1. Name of the conference
   2. Website link containing the conference’s poster requirements
   3. Date they will pick up their poster at the CON (Poster Pickup Date)
   4. The MFK to which the printing cost for the poster will be charged
2. Once this information is received, the ONR Secretary will provide you with the following:
   1. A Deadline Table for ONR Poster Creation
   2. Poster templates
   3. ONR Poster Sample
   4. Statistical Reporting Reference Sheet
3. A complete draft of your poster is due to the ONR Secretary at least 2 weeks in advance of the Poster Pickup Date. The ONR Secretary will review the poster draft to determine how much work is left to complete.  The poster author should be available (either by email or in person) to address requests for additional information and to review poster edits.
4. Final electronic poster files that are ready for printing are due to the ONR Secretary a minimum of 5 full business days before the Poster Pickup Date.

Scope of Policy.  The Policy Applies to Any Paper that is peer-reviewed and is accepted for publication in a journal on or after April 7, 2008; and arises from any direct funding from an NIH grant or cooperative agreement active in Fiscal Year 2008, or;

• Any direct funding from an NIH contract signed on or after April 7 2008, or;
• Any direct funding from the NIH Intramural Program, or;
• An NIH Employee.

Compliance.  There are three actions grantees must take to comply with the policy:

1.  Address Copyright.  Authors of articles arising from NIH funds are responsible for ensuring that publishing agreements allow for full compliance with the NIH policy.

2.  Submit Article.  Authors must submit to PubMed Central an electronic version of every peer-reviewed article arising from NIH research funds, once an article is accepted for publication. NIH has worked with publishers to develop several ways to submit articles:

1. The author or someone in their organization may deposit a copy of the peer-reviewed manuscript in the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system.  The link to this is http://www.nihms.nin.gov/ [1] Author verifies content.
2. The journal may offer to send the peer-reviewed manuscript files to the NIHMS. Author verifies content.
3. Publishing in a PubMed Central Journal. No additional effort required from the author. See: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm [2] for a list of these journals.

3.  Cite.  Authors must include PubMed Central ID numbers in NIH applications and reports when citing their articles covered by the policy.