OA Policy Compliance for NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR Grant Recipients What are the requirements? Plan Ahead The harmonized Tri-Agency Open Access (OA) Policy on Publications requires all Agency funded grant recipients (NSERC and SSHRC: awarded May 1, 2015 and onwards) to make any peer-reviewed journal publications freely accessible via the Internet within twelve months of publication. ••• BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR GRANT: Determine if the journals you want to publish in are OA compliant. How to Comply With the OA Policy Two options for compliance: green and gold Option 1 (green): Deposit Option 2 (gold): Publish in your work in an open access a journal that provides repository. open access to articles. University of Alberta Some journals require Libraries maintains ERA, a Author Processing Charges no-fee repository where you (APCs). These fees are can deposit your work: eligible grant expenses and era.library.ualberta.ca should be included in your grant proposal. Many journals allow for postprint deposit. Use Sherpa RoMEO to learn about publisher policies: www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo • Do they support postprint deposit? (use SherpaRoMEO) • Do they charge OA fees? (use DOAJ or publisher web sites) Include open access publishing costs in your grant proposal. AFTER YOUR ARTICLE IS ACCEPTED FOR Fee information is available PUBLICATION: on publisher web sites or Save your post-print for via the Directory of Open deposit in ERA or Access Journals (DOAJ): another repository. An www.doaj.org author post-print is the final version of an article Contact your subject librarian for more information or to book a session: http://www.library.ualberta.ca/liaisonlibrarians/ before the publisher applies formatting. It is usually in PDF or MS Word format. http://www.science.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=F6765465-1
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