University Library: Open Access: Open Access mandates & policies

Open Access mandates around the world

Open policy finder
A free database - formerly Sherpa services - from Jisc, providing information on research funders' open access policies
NHMRC Open Access Policy
Mandates the open access sharing of NHMRC-funded research, including publications and data.
Australian Research Council (ARC) Open Access Policy
The Open Access Policy applies to all research outputs arising from ARC funded research.
Australian Academy of Science - Open science
Position statement on Open science
ROARMAP
The Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies (ROARMAP) is a searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders, that require or request their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.

Open policy finder
A free database - formerly Sherpa services - from Jisc, providing information on research funders' open access policies
Plan S - Open Access initiative
Plan S is a funder-led initiative to promote Open Access (OA) publishing. The funders endorsing Plan S – cOAlition S – require that from 2021 scientific publications that result from research funded by their grants must be published in compliant Open Access journals or platforms.
Wellcome Trust (UK) - Open Access policy
Science Europe - Open Access
European Research Council - Open science
ROARMAP
The Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies (ROARMAP) is a searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders, that require or request their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.

In August 2022 the Biden administration mandated immediate open access to federally funded research after it is published, to be fully implemented by 2026.

Open policy finder
A free database - formerly Sherpa services - from Jisc, providing information on research funders' open access policies
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - Public Access Policy (US)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Open Access Policy (US)
Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications (Canada)
OA policy for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
ROARMAP
The Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies (ROARMAP) is a searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders, that require or request their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.

To help choose a journal to publish in, it is worth reviewing the publisher’s policies regarding author rights for archiving in an institutional or subject repository.

Open policy finder provides a searchable database of journals and publishers' policies on OA and self-archiving and can help find more information.

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