| Name: | International Development Research Centre (IDRC) |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.idrc.ca |
| Country: | Canada |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://www.idrc.ca/EN/Misc/Pages/Open-Access-Policy.aspx |
| Effective date from: | 2015-07-20 |
| Open Access, how?: | Green route (deposit in repositories), Gold route (recommend OA journal publication) |
| Exemptions....(text extracted from the policy): | "Rare exceptions [to deviate from IDRC’s open access policy] could include patentability of research inventions, protection of personal information, protection of researchers or subjects of research, or publication in a local language journal that does not offer open access. The justification for not following the open access policy should be explained in the research proposal. Exceptions requested at a later date should be discussed with the IDRC program officer and documented. " |
| Scope of policy?: | Whole funding |
| Funder pays for publication fees: | Yes (charged by direct or indirect costs) |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles, Conference papers, Technical reports, Doctoral thesis, Books, Book Chapters |
| When are accepted peer-reviewed papers to be deposited?: | At time of publication |
| Duration of permissible embargo prior papers being made freely available: | 12 months after publication |
| Copyright reservation (funders): | Retain copyright whenever is possible |
| Copyright terms...(text extracted from the policy): | "IDRC does not require assignment of any rights to IDRC, only permission to publish certain outputs in the IDRC Digital Library. Authors are encouraged to retain copyright to their project outputs. Grantees should avoid entering into agreements with publishers and other organizations that might impede compliance with the requirements of IDRC’s open access policy."
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| Where to archive?: | Unspecified |
| Are there any type of monitoring actions to check compliance with the policy ( if yes, check any if apply): | Yes |
