Research funder policies

Many funding agencies now require you, the author, to retain copyright and to make your articles available in a repository, usually within 6–12 months of publication. Therefore research funding bodies tend to cover the costs of OA publishing/ self- archiving as part of their grants. This means that you can include the cost of open access archiving in your grant proposal.

For policies given by various research funders as part of their grants awards see:

Sherpa / Juliet

Wellcome Trust - Open Access Initiative