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Which funding agencies mandate or recommend that their grantees make their research available in an openly accessible venue?
Which funding agencies allow their grantees to use grant funds for open access fees?
Which funding agencies have set aside pools of money to support open access publishing by it's grantees?
Several organizations have pulled together information on such funder policies:
SHERPA's Juliet database of funder policies
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/BMC's comparative table of funder policies
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/funderpoliciesThe ROARMAP list of the strongest funder and university policies
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/The SPARC Europe spreadsheet of OA policies at the eight Research Councils UK
http://www.sparceurope.org/press_release/RC%20OA%20policies%20v1.3.xls
With thanks to Peter Suber, for pulling these resources together in his newsletter.
Posted by Katie Newman at November 3, 2006 2:57 PM
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