| Name: | Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.hefcw.ac.uk |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://www.hefce.ac.uk/media/hefce/content/pubs/2014/201407/HEFCE2014_07.pdf |
| Effective date from: | 2014-03-31 |
| 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): | "...Where one of the following exceptions applies to an output, this exception should be indicated in the submission to the REF..." |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles, Conference papers |
| Are there any exceptions to deposit any kind of document? (check any if apply): | Patentable discoveries, Restricted 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?: | At time of acceptance |
| Duration of permissible embargo prior papers being made freely available: | More than 12 months after publication, 12 months after publication |
| Copyright reservation (funders): | Retain copyright whenever is possible |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "...We further recommend that institutions fully consider the extent to which they currently retain or transfer the copyright of works published by their researchers..." |
| Where to archive?: | Central or subject repository, Institutional repository |
