The American Psychological Association recently announced that it would charge authors $2,500 for depositing articles into PubMed Central. The Association has apparently decided to rethink the new policy; according to APA's website the policy is "currently being re-examined and will not be implemented at this time."
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported the policy on July 15, 2008, and its blog quickly filled with comments. According to The Chronicle, authors publishing in APA journals were told not to deposit the articles themselves and that the fee would be billed to the author's university.
Authors who receive funding from the National Institutes of Health are now required to submit articles arising from the funded research into PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine's digital archive. For more information, visit the VCU Libraries' page on Navigating the New NIH Mandatory Public Access Policy.