Summary of other funders' Open Access policies
Below is a summary of the requirements of non-UK funders' open access policy that most commonly fund University of Cambridge researchers.
Funder |
Requirement |
Embargo
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Funds provided? |
| ERC | Research outputs and data 'made available' |
6 month STEM 12 months HASS. |
Open access fees must be budgeted into grants. Payment of open access fees are eligible costs if incurred during the lifetime of the project and in line with the provisions in the grant agreement. |
| Horizon 2020 | Articles only are mandated to be deposited in a repository |
6 month STEM 12 months HASS. |
Open access fees must be budgeted into grants. Payment of open access fees are eligible costs if incurred during the lifetime of the project and in line with the provisions in the grant agreement. |
| Horizon Europe |
Immediate open access upon publication is required for articles, conference proceedings, monographs and book chapters either by paying for gold open access or by using self archiving, with a CC BY licence. Articles should be deposited into a 'trusted repository'. |
No embargo allowed. | Publishing fees (including APCs, but also e.g. page charges or colour charges) are eligible costs if incurred during the lifetime of your project and in line with the provisions of your grant agreement. |
| Gates Foundation |
All Funded Research (original research papers and non-commissioned review papers) accepted for publication shall be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). The open access version (the accepted manuscript or version of record) must be available in PubMedCentral on publication. This funder's open access policy will change on 1 January 2025. From that date, the Foundation will no longer pay support APC payments; they will require that grantees share preprints of their research. More information is available on the Foundation's website.
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No embargo allowed. |
The funder requires researchers direct invoices to the foundation for payment from their central budget. Invoices should be sent to openaccess@gatesfoundation.org. Please note that the Foundation will only pay fees for articles publishing in Gold Open Access journals.
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| NIH | All investigators funded by the NIH must submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication. | 12 months. | Publication costs, including author fees, may be charged to NIH grants and contracts on three conditions: (1) such costs incurred are actual, allowable, and reasonable to advance the objectives of the award; (2) costs are charged consistently regardless of the source of support; (3) all other applicable rules on allowability of costs are met. |
What you need to do:
- Budget for OA costs in grant applications, if required by your funder.
- Submit all articles and conference papers to www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk on acceptance or when a journal asks you to commit to an OA option – whichever comes first.
- Follow any compliance advice we give you.
Last updated March 2022