| Name: | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, 2006) |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.esrc.ac.uk |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/ESRC-Open-Access-Policy_tcm8-3984.pdf |
| Effective date from: | 2006-10-01 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories) |
| Can requirement be waived by funder?: | No waiver on deposit but immediate OA |
| Exemptions....(text extracted from the policy): | "...Researchers funded by the ESRC must deposit all outputs from any of their research funded by the ESRC, in the ESRC Social Sciences Repository, except where this is restricted by publisher policy on licensing and/or copyright..."
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| Scope of policy?: | Whole funding |
| Funder pays for publication fees: | Yes (charged by direct or indirect costs) |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles, Conference papers |
| Versions of papers that may/must be deposited: | Author's peer-reviewed final draft, Publisher's version of record, Unrefereed preprint |
| When are accepted peer-reviewed papers to be deposited?: | As soon as possible |
| Duration of permissible embargo prior papers being made freely available: | Unspecified (after period stipulated by the publisher) |
| Copyright reservation (funders): | Retain copyright whenever is possible |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "...If possible and/or necessary, the author should amend their copyright agreement with the publisher so that self-archiving is not prohibited. However, this is not required by the ESRC. By using a 'licence to publish', the author retains certain rights for various scholarly purposes whilst granting the publisher a sole licence for certain copyright related acts which have an economic or commercial objective with respect to the article...." |
| Where to archive?: | Institutional repository |
| Name of specified archive: | ESRC Social Sciences Repository |
| URL of specified archive: | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/impacts-and-findings/research-catalogue/index.aspx |
