| Name: | JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/bidguide/proj_tocgrants.aspx |
| Effective date from: | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories) |
| Can requirement be waived by funder?: | No waiver on deposit but immediate OA |
| Scope of policy?: | Whole funding |
| Funder pays for publication fees: | Yes (charged by direct or indirect costs) |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles, Conference papers |
| Versions of papers that may/must be deposited: | Author's peer-reviewed final draft, Publisher's version of record, Unrefereed preprint |
| 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 |
| Copyright reservation (funders): | Any publishing or copyright agreements concerning articles have to comply with the OA policy |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "...Which version of the article should be deposited depends upon publishers’ agreements with their authors but JISC mandates that articles should be made available through publishers that adopt the RoMEO "green" approach as a minimum (for further information see). Authors should go to another journal if the journal chosen does not adopt the RoMEO "green" conditions..." |
| Where to archive?: | Central or subject repository, Institutional repository |
