Name: | Medical Research Council (MRC, 2006) |
Type: | Funder |
Institution/funder website: | http://www.mrc.ac.uk/ |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Open Access policy: | Requirement |
Policy link: | http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Ourresearch/Ethicsresearchguidance/Openaccesspublishing/Guide/index.htm |
Effective date from: | 2006-10-01 |
Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories), Gold route (recommend OA journal publication) |
Scope of policy?: | Whole or partial funding |
Funder pays for publication fees: | Yes (charged by direct or indirect costs) |
What must be deposited?: | Articles |
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 publication |
Duration of permissible embargo prior papers being made freely available: | 6 months after publication |
Copyright reservation (funders): | Allow opt-out from copyright reservation case by case |
Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "...If author/institution-ownership of copyright is not permitted by the publisher, authors should publish in journals that permit the paper to be made available in UKPMC and PMCI repositories within six months of publication. If a researcher wishes to publish a paper in a journal that is unwilling to agree either to author/institution ownership of copyright, or to allow the article to be made freely available from UKPMC and PMCI repositories within six months, the MRC may, in very exceptional cases, grant permission for authors to submit the paper for publication in such a journal..." |
Where to archive?: | Central or subject repository, Institutional repository |
Name of specified archive: | UK PubMed Central |
URL of specified archive: | http://ukpmc.ac.uk/ |
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