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Open access: Funders' open access requirements

Forskning som finansieras med offentliga medel

An increasing number of funders require researchers within their projects to publish immediate open access (OA). Through Plan S, international and national funders demand that scientific publications based on publicly funded research must be OA.


Plan S
= An initiative for OA publishing by cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funding and performing orPlan S logoganizations. The Plan S initiative requires that scientific publications funded by public grants from 2021 onwards must be published OA immediately (without embargo). 

“With effect from 2021, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional and international research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo.”
 

Rights Retention Strategy
cOAlition S has developed the Rights Retention strategy to allow researchers financed by cOAlition S funders to freely choose the journal to publish in (even closed journals) and still comply with the Plan S requirement. Implementing "rights retention" means that the researcher demands the right to parallel publish their manuscript without embargo.


Funders committed to Plan S:

  • Research Council of Finland
    The Research Council of Finland requires funded projects to commit to publishing their research results with open access and making their research data openly available.

How to comply with funders' OA requirements (Plan S)

Plan S requires articles to be openly published in the primary publication channel (full/hybrid OA) or to be parallel published without embargo and with a CC license (green OA).


How to proceed:

1. Publish in a full OA journal

    or

2. Publish in a hybrid journal that has a "transformative agreement". Read more about publication arrangements for ÅAU researchers here.


Ensure in advance that the journal meets the Plan S requirements with the Journal Checker Tool (found also here):

 

  • If   YES   ⇒  Go ahead and submit the article!
  • If   NO   ⇒  Proceed to option 3:


3. Publish in any journal but secure your right to parallel publish in a way that complies with Plan S requirements by demanding Rights Retention:
 

  • Inform the journal when you submit the article that the AAM/VoR is licensed with a CC license (primarily CC BY) because the funder mandates it.
     
Model: “This research was funded, in whole or in part, by [Organisation name, Grant #]. A CC BY or equivalent licence is applied to [the AAM/VoR] arising from this submission, in accordance with the grant’s open access conditions’’.

   

 

                   Write to openscience@abo.fi if you need help contacting the journal!
 

  • When the article is published: parallel publish your AAM/VoR in AboCRIS without embargo.
     
  • If a conflict arises between you and the journal, please contact your funder.

 

 

Permission to parallel publish in AboCRIS - template letter

Most academic publishers and journals allow researchers to parallel publish a copy of the final, peer-reviewed version (AAM) of their article in an open, digital repository. Information about the publishers' and journals' parallel publishing policies can be found in Sherpa/Romeo or on the journals' websites.

If this information is missing and is also not mentioned in the publishing agreement, you can request its addition to the agreement.

Template letter for contacting publishers/journals:


This guide by Åbo Akademi University Library is licensed under CC BY 4.0