| Name: | U.S. Department of Veterans |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.va.gov/ |
| Country: | United States |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://www.research.va.gov/resources/policies/public_access.cfm |
| Effective date from: | 2015-02-01 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories) |
| Can requirement be waived by funder?: | No waiver on deposit but immediate OA |
| Exemptions....(text extracted from the policy): | "Deposited manuscripts are made available to the public in PubMed Central no later than 12 months after their publication in a journal." |
| Scope of policy?: | Whole or partial funding |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles |
| Versions of papers that may/must be deposited: | Author's peer-reviewed final draft |
| When are accepted peer-reviewed papers to be deposited?: | At time of acceptance |
| Duration of permissible embargo prior papers being made freely available: | 12 months after publication |
| Where to archive?: | Central or subject repository |
| Name of specified archive: | PubMed Central |
| URL of specified archive: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ |
