The National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) have jointly established PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada). PMC Canada is a national digital repository of peer-reviewed health and life sciences literature, including research resulting from CIHR funding. PMC Canada is operated and maintained by NRC-CISTI in accordance with its mandate and legislative authority.

The PMC Canada manuscript submission system supports CIHR's Policy on Access to Research Outputs, under which grant recipients are required to ensure that their peer reviewed publications are freely accessible online within six months of publication. Manuscripts submitted to PMC Canada shall also appear in PubMed Central US, hosted by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It must be noted that, as a US organization, the NLM is subject to extraterritorial laws and legislation.

To submit your manuscript to PMC Canada, NRC-CISTI requires certain personal information. Some personal information is extracted from the manuscript you submit and some is received from CIHR. This statement explains how your personal information is collected, used, disclosed and retained in accordance with the Privacy Act.

The personal information contained within the manuscript will be extracted from the manuscript in order to identify attributes of the author such as name, affiliation, email address, telephone numbers, CIHR Grant ID. Information extracted from your manuscript will be posted on PMC Canada. Your manuscript will be retained in the depository system for the lifetime of PMC Canada.

NRC-CISTI will use personal information received from CIHR including salutation, first name, last name, affiliation, email addresses, phone number, funded project title, CIHR Grant ID and CIHR person ID, to identify and authenticate the researchers. This information will be used for the processing of the manuscripts, as well as for research and statistical purposes such as grant tracking and evaluation. This information will not be shared with NLM or any other outside third party. All personal information received from CIHR will be stored in a secure manuscript submission system and will be deleted upon request from CIHR or the user.

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If you require clarification about this Statement, contact the NRC-CISTI Privacy Coordinator at 1.613.949.7684. For more information on privacy issues and the Privacy Act in general, consult the Privacy Commissioner at 1.800.282.1376. For more details on PMC Canada visit http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca.

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