| Name: | Fraunhofer-Gessellschaft |
| Type: | Academic/research institution |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.fraunhofer.de |
| Country: | Germany |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://www.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/zv/en/Publications/Fraunhofer_open-access-policy.pdf |
| Effective date from: | 2008-07-01 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories), Gold route (recommend OA journal publication) |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles, Conference papers, 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?: | Unspecified |
| Duration of permissible embargo prior papers being made freely available: | 12 months after publication |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "...Employees are encouraged to choose the best possible mode of publication for their research findings, in terms of readership. They are expressly required to demand that publishing houses grant them the right to further use of their own works..." |
| Where to archive?: | Central or subject repository, Institutional repository |
| Name of specified archive: | Fraunhofer ePrints |
| URL of specified archive: | http://publica.fraunhofer.de/starweb/ep08/index.htm |
