SHERPA   
. . . opening access to research  
spacer

Research funders' open access policies

MacArthur Foundation (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)

Country: United States
JULIET Home | Open Access Archiving | Open Access Publishing | Data Archiving Policy | Key to OA Ticks

Publications Policy

Open Access Archiving

No Open Access Tick Whether to Archive: * Encourages deposition in Open Access archives
No Open Access Tick What to Archive: * Peer-reviewed publications, Project reports
* Unspecified version
* Unspecified format
No Open Access Tick When to Archive: * At the earliest possible opportunity
  Where to Archive: * In any appropriate repository
  Archiving Conditions: * [No information]

Open Access Publishing

No Open Access Tick Whether to Publish: * Encourages publication in Open Access publications
  Where to Publish: * in a peer-reviewed open access journal
  Publishing Conditions: * Costs of open access publishing should be included in funding applications

General

  General Conditions: * Effective for all current projects from 18-Sep-2008
* Applies to all projects funded totally or partly by the MacArthur Foundation
* Grantees are encouraged to use Creative Commons license
* Limited or delayed dissemination of Grant Work Product will be considered on a case-by-case basis
* In all instances, the Foundation will agree to suitable terms at the time a grant is made based on the facts to ensure the objectives of the policy are met while respecting appropriate interests of others.
  Policy Links: * Intellectual Property Policy

Data Archiving Policy

No Open Access Tick Whether to Archive: * Encourages deposition in Open Access archives
  What to Archive: * Research data
No Open Access Tick When to Archive: * At the earliest possible opportunity
  Where to Archive: * Not specified
  General Conditions: * Effective for all new projects from 18-Sep-2008
* Effective for all current projects from 18-Sep-2008
* Applies to all projects funded totally or partly by the MacArthur Foundation
* Costs of access provision may be recovered on a not-for-profit basis
* Limited or delayed dissemination of Data will be considered on a case-by-case basis
* In all instances, the Foundation will agree to suitable terms at the time a grant is made based on the facts to ensure the objectives of the policy are met while respecting appropriate interests of others.
  Policy Links: * Intellectual Property Policy
Suggest an update for this record
This information is accurate to the best of our knowledge, but should not be relied upon for legal advice.

JULIET and Support for Open Access to Research Open Access Tick

Publications Policies

To maximise the dissemination of the research they fund, the grant conditions of funding organisations increasingly require peer-reviewed research outputs to be made freely available to the public in full at the earliest possible date. These aims can be achieved either by archiving publications in an Open Access repository, or by publishing in an Open Access publication. JULIET assigns Open Access ticks (Open Access Tick) for the key conditions that should ideally be met for each type of policy. If a policy fails to meet a key condition, a dash (No Open Access Tick) is shown instead.

Self-Archiving

The ideal publications archiving policy has three key parts:

Open Access Tick Whether to archive: Deposit required to be made available free of charge without any access restrictions
Open Access Tick What to archive: The full final version the published version or the author's final peer-reviewed version
Open Access Tick When to archive: When accepted for publication although toleration of publishers' embargos negates this

Open Access Publishing

As an alternative to archiving, some funders accept publication of articles in Open Access journals or in hybrid journals, which may require an additional payment to the publisher for the article to be made Open Access immediately on the date of publication. Accordingly, JULIET assigns an Open Access tick (Open Access Tick) if the policy requires open access publishing.

Data Archiving Policies

Funding organisations are also increasingly requiring grantees to deposit their raw research data in appropriate public archives or stores, in order to facilitate the validation of results and further work by other researchers. The practicalities of providing access to large data-sets can be costly for data archives. Therefore, an Open Access tick may still be given if the archive recovers the costs of access provision on a not-for-profit basis.

Because it can take some time to write up results after a work has been completed, policies may allow a reasonable period of grace during which the original researchers have exclusive access to the data before it has to be deposited in a public archive. The lengths of such periods vary by subject discipline. For instance six months might be suitable for a chemistry project, but an archaeological dig could require several years. However, there clearly needs to be an outer limit.

JULIET assigns up to two Open Access ticks for data archiving policies:

Open Access Tick Data archiving is required.
Open Access Tick Data must be deposited within five years.

Statistical Analysis

For an indication of how UK research funders have implemented Open Access policies and level of funds affected, please see: Selected research funders' grant expenditure.

Updates and Feedback

The information in JULIET is updated by community contributions. If a funding organisation with an open access or data archiving policy is not listed here, please tell us about it via our Notification Form. Alternatively, please submit any updates or feedback by email to the JULIET Administrators (juliet@sherpa.ac.uk).

JULIET complements the RoMEO service provided by SHERPA for authors and repository administrators, which lists summaries of publishers' copyright transfer agreements as they relate to archiving. Further information on Open Access is available for authors, including links to contacts and repositories which may be able to take eprints to fulfil funders' requirements and recommendations. Further information on repositories is available from OpenDOAR.

Further information about RoMEO & JULIET [PDF files] - Leaflet  |  Large Poster (A1)  |  Small Poster (A3)

CURL logo With grateful thanks to CURL for funding JULIET development.

© 2006-2009, University of Nottingham Contact us