Open Access in FP7 (Seventh Research Framework Programme)

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13 April 2011

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Currently the European Commission has two policies on Open Access in practice. Both aim to ensure that research results funded by the EU citizen are made available to the population at large for free. In this way, Open Access is considered a way to improve the EU's return on research and development (R&D) investment.

In December 2007, the ERC Scientific Council published his Guidelines for Open Access, as a follow up of the 2006 Statement on Open Access. In August 2008, the European Commission launched the Open Access Pilot in FP7 that will run until the end of the Framework Programme.

These initiatives require that the researcher provides open access to articles resulting from EC funded research, within a specified time period. Both initiatives have further special requirements, see ERC Guidelines for Open Access and Open Access Pilot in FP7.

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Are you supposed to deposit?

If you are a grant recipient from ERC or from FP7 in one of the following Research Areas

  1. Energy
  2. Environment (including Climate Change)
  3. Health
  4. Information and Communication Technologies (Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics)
  5. Research Infrastructures (e-infrastructures)
  6. Science in society
  7. Socio-economic sciences and the humanities

you are required to deposit your publications!

 

 

What to deposit

  • Published version
publisher’s final version of the paper, including all modifications from the peer review process, copyediting and stylistic edits, and formatting changes (usually a PDF document)
OR
  • Final manuscript accepted for publication
final manuscript of a peer-reviewed paper accepted for journal publication, including all modifications from the peer review process, but not yet formatted by the publisher (also referred to as “post-print” version).

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Where to deposit

Researchers should deposit final articles or manuscripts into the institutional repository of the research  institution with which they are affiliated. If this is not possible, they should identify an appropriate subject  based/thematic repository. The Commission provides a special repository for articles that can be stored neither in institutional nor in subject-based/thematic repositories.

Researchers should deposit final articles or manuscripts into:

OR OR
  • the Orphan Repository for articles that can be stored neither in institutional nor in subject-based/thematic repositories.

When to deposit

You have to deposit on publication into an appropriate repository.

Open Access to the publication has to be provided within:

six months twelve months
ERC All grant recipients after 2007 -
FP7
in the thematic areas:
"Health", "Energy", "Environment" (including Climate Change)", and "Information & communication technologies" (“Cognitive Systems”, “Interaction” and “Robotics”)

in the activity:
"Research infrastructures" (e-infrastructures)
in the thematic area:
"Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities"



in the activity:
"Science in Society"

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