Most major research funders require research outputs to be made open access.
When you accept a research grant, you are expected to provide open access to the publications arising from the funded research.
If you don’t comply with your funder’s policy, your existing grant may be partially withheld, and you may not be eligible for future funding.
Compliance
The key things to look for in your funder policy are:
- The copyright licence you need to publish
- Any specific journals you are not allow to publish in
- Repositories where you must self-archive/deposit your research
- If there is an embargo period before you can deposit your work in ORA
- Whether any other descriptive text – such as plain language summaries – are needed
Links to funder policies
Acknowledgements
Your funder may require you to acknowledge funding in the article published in the journal and any accepted version deposited in ORA.
Check individual policies for specific wording. If none is provided, you can use the statement:
“This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the [Funder name] [Grant number]. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.”
Contact us
If you need help understanding the implications of your funder policy, or if your funder is not listed here, please contact us: openaccess@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
