| Name: | European Commission. Horizon 2020 |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020 |
| Country: | Europa |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/oa_pilot/h2020-hi-oa-pilot-guide_en.pdf |
| Effective date from: | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories), Gold route (recommend OA journal publication) |
| Scope of policy?: | Whole funding |
| Funder pays for publication fees: | Yes (charged by direct or indirect costs) |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles |
| What may be deposited?: | Conference papers, Data, Books, Others |
| 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, 12 months after publication |
| Copyright reservation (funders): | Retain copyright whenever is possible |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "...In all cases, the Commission encourages authors to retain their copyright and grant adequate licences to publishers..." |
| Where to archive?: | Central or subject repository, Institutional repository |
| Are there any type of monitoring actions to check compliance with the policy ( if yes, check any if apply): | Yes, Cancel funds |
