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Public Access, Open Access, and the Need for NIH Governance

JAMA Internal Medicine 10.1001/jamainternmed.2026.3468

August 24, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint discusses the confusion between public access and open access, pay-to-comply publisher practices, and the steps that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) must take to fill this gap and promote public access goals.

Corresponding Author: Adam A. Markovitz, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, 2800 Plymouth Rd, Bldg 16, Office 470W, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (amarkov@umich.edu).

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