Research Funders and their Repository Deposit Requirements
Several research funders require their fundees to make research outputs openly available either through publication in an open access journal or by depositing a copy of the work in an open access repository.
The policies of some key funders are summarised in the JULIET database - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
We also have a local file for White Rose Research Online (WRRO) showing what is required to fulfil the deposit requirements of the Research Councils and the Wellcome trust: Funder Policies document.
For several funders, deposit into an institutional open access repository, such as WRRO, meets their open access deposit requirement.
The main exceptions to this are:
MRC and Wellcome Trust - which require deposit into UK PubMed Central.
ESRC - which requires deposit into their local Awards and Outputs Repository. Specifically, for awards from grant applications submitted from 1 October 2006, fundees are required to:
- Personally deposit, or otherwise ensure the deposit of, a copy of any resultant articles published in journals or conference proceedings, in the ESRC awards and outputs repository.
- Wherever possible, personally deposit, or otherwise ensure the deposit of, the bibliographical metadata relating to such articles, including a link to the publisher's website, at or around the time of publication, in the ESRC awards and outputs repository.
WRRO is working with ESRC to investigate how to enable a single deposit of metadata and file(s) (whether into a local institutional repository or into ESRC's repository) can feed both repositories - and possibly other relevant systems.