| Name: | Chief Scientist Office, Scottish Executive (CSO) |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.cso.scot.nhs.uk |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://www.cso.scot.nhs.uk/about/publications/cso-open-access-policy |
| Effective date from: | 2006-04-01 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories), Gold route (recommend OA journal publication) |
| Scope of policy?: | Whole or partial funding |
| Funder pays for publication fees: | Yes, through supplemental funding |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles |
| What may be deposited?: | Data |
| Versions of papers that may/must be deposited: | Author's peer-reviewed final draft, Publisher's version of record |
| When are accepted peer-reviewed papers to be deposited?: | As soon as possible |
| Duration of permissible embargo prior papers being made freely available: | 6 months after publication |
| Copyright reservation (funders): | Any publishing or copyright agreements concerning articles have to comply with the OA policy |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "...Authors must ensure, in advance of making any agreement with or commitment to a publisher at any stage, that the agreement or commitment does not conflict with the author’s obligations under CSO’s Grant Conditions..." |
| Where to archive?: | Central or subject repository |
| Name of specified archive: | Europe PMC, PubMed Central |
| URL of specified archive: | http://europepmc.org |
