Cunningham Memorial Library: Open Access Publishing: Funders & Policies

Funder Policies

NIH Public Access Policy
The NIH Public Access Policy requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to PubMed Central immediately upon acceptance for publication.
Gates Foundation’s Open Access Policy
All preprints must be freely available and openly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) or equivalent terms to allow others to build on and reuse the research.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Research funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and appearing in peer-reviewed journal publications must be made freely and immediately available for all.

JISC Open Policy Finder
This searchable database provides information about the open access publishing and archiving policies of many key funding agencies, publishers and individual journals.

CC BY	Content can be remixed, reused, even sold commercially but attribution to the original source author must be provided. This is the most open Creative Commons license.
CC BY-SA	Content can be remixed, reused, even sold commercially as long as the original material is attributed to the original author and any derivative works are shared alike with the same license going forward.
CC BY-ND	Content can be reused both commercially and non-commercially but cannot be remixed or changed in any way. Attribution must be given to the original author.
CC BY-NC	Content can be remixed, reused, and distributed non-commercially with attribution to the original author. Derivative works do not have to be licensed under the same terms.
CC BY-NC-SA	Content can be remixed, reused, and distributed non-commercially with attribution to the original author. Derivative works must be licensed under the same terms.
CC BY-NC-ND	Content can be reused non-commercially but cannot be remixed or changed in any way. Attribution must be given to the original author. This is the most restrictive Creative Commons license.