| Name: | Breakthrough Breast Cancer |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.breakthroughresearch.org.uk |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://www.breakthroughresearch.org.uk/strategy-funding/open-access |
| Effective date from: | 2012-03-01 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories), Gold route (recommend OA journal publication) |
| Can requirement be waived by funder?: | No waiver on deposit; case-based waiver on immediate OA |
| Exemptions....(text extracted from the policy): | "...in exceptional circumstances you may publish in a journal that does not allow the article to be deposited in Europe PMC within 6 months. Researchers should contact Breakthrough in advance of submitting their manuscript to make a case for publishing in such journals in advance..." |
| Scope of policy?: | Whole or partial funding |
| Funder pays for publication fees: | Yes (charged by direct or indirect costs) |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles |
| Versions of papers that may/must be deposited: | Author's peer-reviewed final draft |
| 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 |
| Where to archive?: | Central or subject repository |
| Name of specified archive: | Europe PubMed Central |
| URL of specified archive: | http://europepmc.org |
