| Name: | Kenyatta University |
| Type: | Academic/research institution |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.ku.ac.ke |
| Country: | Kenia |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://library.ku.ac.ke/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Library-IR-Policy.pdf |
| Effective date from: | 2014-01-15 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories) |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles, Doctoral thesis |
| What may be deposited?: | Conference papers, Technical reports, Learning objects, Books, Book Chapters |
| Are there any exceptions to deposit any kind of document? (check any if apply): | Patentable discoveries, Work not intended for publication (drafts, lab notes..), Restricted data |
| 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: | Unspecified (after period stipulated by the publisher) |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "..The University is granted a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise
all rights under copyright relating to each authors’ scholarly works, and to authorize
others to do the same, provided that the scholarly works are not sold for a profit..." |
| Where to archive?: | Institutional repository |
| Name of specified archive: | KU Institutional Repository |
| URL of specified archive: | http://ir-library.ku.ac.ke |
