Policies and Statements

An increasing number of governments, funding bodies, institutions, and departments are putting into place policies that either require deposit of peer-reviewed papers in open access repositories (mandates) or encourage deposit.

JULIET

A listing of the current research funding body open access policies complied by the SHERPA group.

ROARMAP

A list of departmental, institutional, and funder open access mandates

The SHERPA RoMEO Copyright list

One of the major hurdles faced when trying to encourage authors to deposit their papers is the belief that copyright restrictions prohibit deposit. The RoMEO list gives the copyright position for over 300 publishers and shows that the majority allow either pre- or post-print archiving (or both).

UK Research Council Open Access Mandates

All seven of the UK's Recearch Councils have open access mandates in place or planned. This is SPARC Europe's summary of the polices (.xls)