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ArticlePLoS medicine2026

The NIH 2025 Public Access Policy: Immediate access, unequal costs.

Caitlin R Ryus, Caroline Raymond King, Edward R Melnick

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Caitlin R RyusDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5526-030X
Caroline Raymond KingDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9913-6340
Edward R MelnickDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6509-9537

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The NIH 2025 Public Access Policy eliminates embargo periods for federally funded research, expanding who can read science. Yet without addressing article processing charges and market concentration, the policy risks creating new barriers to who can afford to perform and publish their science.

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National Institutes of Health (U.S.)PublishingHumansScholarly CommunicationUnited States

Identifiers

PMID42224272
PMCPMC13225368

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