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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "works 24/7 keeping America safe from health, safety, and security threats, both foreign and domestic. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease, and supports communities and citizens to do the same. CDC is the nation’s health protection agency — saving lives, protecting people from health threats, and saving money through prevention."
The CDC funds over 5,000 grants and cooperative agreements each year to advance the Agency's public health mission.
The CDC has released their plan for establishing their policy for public access to scientific publications that arise form CDC funding.
Based on the CDC Plan:
The CDC Funded Publications Policy is applicable to peer-reviewed publications published after July 15, 2013.
A CDC-funded author must submit an electronic version of the author's 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 manuscript version required is the final, peer-reviewed accepted manuscript. This manuscript is the version of the article that has been accepted for publication and includes all changes made by the author during the peer-review process. It does not include the publisher's formatting.
For the CDC, the maximum allowed embargo period is 12 months from date of publication.
For peer-reviewed manuscripts, the CDC will use its CDC Stacks digital repository system. Publications will also be hosted in PubMed Central (PMC).