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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's mission is to "produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used."
The AHRQ supports research to improve the quality, effectiveness, accessibility and cost effectiveness of health care. This includes providing funding for health care research training and career development.
The official AHRQ Public Access Policy for AHRQ-Funded Scientific Publications was updated on December 18, 2024 and is intended to be consistent with the NIH Public Access Policy.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-25-011.html
The updated AHRQ Policy is fully effective on the date of policy publication, December 18, 2024.
The policy does not apply to any publication arising from an AHRQ-funded grant, cooperative agreement award, or research contract, funded prior to publication of the updated Policy.
However publications arising from awards issued before December 18, 2024 may still need to comply with the original 2016 AHRQ Policy.
AHRQ-funded authors must submit an electronic version of the author's final peer-reviewed accepted manuscript to PubMed Central via the National Institutes of Health Manuscript Submission System (NIHMS) upon acceptance for publication.
For additional information on using NIHMS, please see the following:
The final peer-reviewed accepted manuscript is required.
AHRQ encourages authors to include a statement in their manuscript to indicate it is subject to the AHRQ Public Access Policy:
"I hereby grant to AHRQ, a royalty-free, nonexclusive and irrevocable right to reproduce, publish, or otherwise use this work for Federal purposes, and to authorize others to do so. This grant of rights includes the right to create derivative works and make the final, peer-reviewed manuscript publicly available upon the Official Date of Publication."
AHRQ also "requests that recipients notify the Office of Communication (OC) when an AHRQ-funded research article has been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Researchers should submit manuscripts that have been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal to JournalPublishing@ahrq.hhs.gov at least four to six weeks in advance of the journal’s expected publication date."
For peer-reviewed manuscripts, the repository is PubMed Central (PMC).