Peer-reviewed research articles and monographs wholly or partly funded by Horizon Europe, must be made available open access immediately and no later than the date of publication.
Policy requirements:
- Either the version of record or the author accepted manuscript must be deposited in ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Research Online and made immediately open access with a CC BY licence (more restrictive licences are permitted for books and chapters)
- Provide an acknowledgement of funding in the following format: "This project has received funding from the [European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme] under grant number No. [Number]."
- Add the paper into your final report to the European Commission.
How do I comply?
Check that your publisher offers a compliant route to open access before submitting your manuscript.
Gold open access
You cannot use ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳’s open access funds to comply with the Horizon Europe open access policy. You should budget open access publishing fees into your grant application (they can be included as “direct eligible costs” providing they are incurred during the lifespan of the project).
- For journal and conference articles:
- If your paper is accepted in an eligible journal covered by one of our transformative publishing agreements, the paper can be published Gold open access without the payment of an APC.
- For fully open access journals (indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals), you can cover publication fees from your Horizon Europe grant.
- For books and chapters:
- You can cover reasonable publication fees from your Horizon Europe grant (note that open access fees for chapters published in books that are not fully open access are not eligible costs).
- You must deposit the final published version of all publications in ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Research Online no later than the date of publication.
Green open access
- Deposited the accepted version of your manuscript in ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Research Online and make it open access with a CC BY licence on publication.
- A more restrictive licence may be permitted for books and chapters.
Contact the Open Access team if you have any questions about complying with your EU funder.
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