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.
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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.
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