| Name: | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ |
| Country: | United States |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://www.gatesfoundation.org/how-we-work/general-information/open-access-policy |
| Effective date from: | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories), Gold route (recommend OA journal publication) |
| Can requirement be waived by funder?: | No waiver on deposit but immediate OA |
| Exemptions....(text extracted from the policy): | "..As of January 1, 2015 our Open Access policy will be effective for all new agreements. During a two-year transition period, publishers will be permitted to apply up to a 12 month embargo period on the accessibility of the publication and its underlying data sets. This embargo period will no longer be allowed after January 1, 2017..." |
| Scope of policy?: | Whole or partial funding |
| Funder pays for publication fees: | Yes (charged by direct or indirect costs) |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles, Data |
| 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 |
| Copyright reservation (funders): | Require blanket copyright reservation, no opt-out |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | All publications shall be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC BY 4.0) or an equivalent license. This will permit all users of the publication to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and transform and build upon the material, including for any purpose (including commercial) without further permission or fees being required. |
| Where to archive?: | Unspecified |
