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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 released on February 19, 2016 and mirrors the NIH Public Access Policy.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-16-008.html
The AHRQ Policy is fully effective on the date of policy publication, February 19, 2016.
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 Policy.
See the Policy:
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-HS-16-008.html
AHRQ-funded authors must submit an electronic version of the author's final peer-reviewed accepted manuscript to 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.
For the AHRQ, the maximum allowed embargo period is 12 months from date of publication.
For peer-reviewed manuscripts, the repository is PubMed Central (PMC).