Meet Your Award Terms with the Public Access Service

Our Story

In April 2008, the National Institutes of Health introduced a public access to publications requirement for all of its research grants. This condition, which has since been replicated by almost every other federal agency, impacts the thousands of principal investigators on the UW-Madison campus who receive over $847 million in annual federal funding.

Originally launched by Ebling Library in 2008, the Public Access Service, with the support of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education and the UW-Madison Libraries, has grown into a campus-wide unit serving researchers and grants management staff from all of the University’s schools, institutes and centers. 

While who the unit serves has changed, our mission has remained the same: help UW-Madison researchers and staff navigate this federal award requirement through consultation, training, and services such as our BuckySubmit manuscript submisison tool.

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