| Name: | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.unesco.org |
| Country: | International |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002208/220872E.pdf |
| Effective date from: | 2013-07-31 |
| 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): | "Resources published by external publishers that have received funding in whole or in part from UNESCO shall be made available under one of the CC IGO licenses, with an embargo period acceptable if required by the publisher that should not exceed 12 months. In this
context, external publishing partners will be strongly encouraged to apply the most liberal license possible." |
| Scope of policy?: | Whole or partial funding |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles |
| Versions of papers that may/must be deposited: | Publisher's version of record |
| When are accepted peer-reviewed papers to be deposited?: | At time of publication |
| Duration of permissible embargo prior papers being made freely available: | 12 months after publication |
| Copyright reservation (funders): | Require blanket copyright reservation, no opt-out |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "...For any publication produced in whole by a member of the Secretariat and published by an external publisher, UNESCO should retain the copyright of the publication. ERI/DPI shall negotiate an agreement with the publisher and determine the CC license under which the publication will be released..." |
| Where to archive?: | Institutional repository |
| Name of specified archive: | UNESDOC |
| URL of specified archive: | http://www.unesco.org/ulis |
