| Name: | National Science Foundation |
| Type: | Funder |
| Institution/funder website: | http://www.nsf.gov |
| Country: | United States |
| Open Access policy: | Requirement |
| Policy link: | http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15052/nsf15052.pdf |
| Effective date from: | 2016-01-01 |
| 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 or partial funding |
| Funder pays for publication fees: | Yes (charged by direct or indirect costs) |
| What must be deposited?: | Articles, Conference papers, Data |
| 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: | 12 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): | "Work with the publisher before any publication rights are transferred to ensure that all NSF’s public access requirements can be met.
Ensure that any agreement signed with a publisher preserves the author’s ability to comply with NSF’s public access requirements." |
| Where to archive?: | Central or subject repository, Institutional repository |
| Are there any type of monitoring actions to check compliance with the policy ( if yes, check any if apply): | Required manuscript submission number/OD identifier |
