Economic and Social Research Council

Funder Information

Funder Name
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [English]
URL
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ [English]
Identifiers
FundRef DOI: 10.13039/501100000269
Country
United Kingdom
Group Memberships
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Requires Open Access Archiving

Requirement
Economic and Social Research Council requires Open Access Archiving
What to archive
  • Conference papers
  • Peer-reviewed publications
Publication version
Author's final version (Required)
When to archive
At the earliest possible opportunity
Permitted Embargo
12 months
Where to archive
  • Appropriate institutional repository
  • Appropriate disciplinary repository

Requires Open Access Publishing

Requirement
Economic and Social Research Council requires Open Access Publishing
Where to publish
  • as an article with immediate paid-for open access (Alternative)
  • in a peer-reviewed open access journal (Alternative)
Conditions

General Open Access Policy

Effective for all current projects from:
1 April 2013
Effective for all new projects from:
1 April 2013
Earlier compliance encouraged.
Yes
Application scope
Applies to all fully or partly funded projects
Special Conditions
  • Applies to peer-reviewed research articles that are submitted for publication from 1st April 2013.
  • Applies to peer-reviewed research articles (including review articles not commissioned by publishers) published in journals or conference proceedings.
  • Authors may comply with policy by publishing in an Open Access Journal or Depositing in a repository
  • If an Open Access fee is paid, a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License must be used.
  • Open Access Publications must also allow immediate deposit of the Version of Record in other repositories
  • Open Access fees may be reimbursed via block grants to institutions
  • An embargo period of 24 months, may be allowed where an Open Access fee is available, but there are no funds to pay for it.
  • Authors who do not pay an Open Access fee, must deposit their work under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC) License, or equivalent is acceptable. A CC-BY-NC-ND licence is not compliant.
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Requires Open Data Archiving

Requirement
Economic and Social Research Council requires Open Data Archiving
Types of Data
  • Research Data
  • Associated Metadata
  • Supporting Documentation
When to archive
Within 3 months of completion
Where to archive
  • Appropriate institutional repository (Preferred )
  • Any appropriate repository (Preferred )
  • Named repository (Required )
Named Repositories
Special Conditions
Both machine-readable and non-machine- readable data, Datasets arising as a result of primary data collection, and to derived datasets, Examples: interview transcripts; diaries; field notes; observational recordings
Policy links

System Metadata

ID
717
Date Created
23 January 2013 12:09:15 UTC
Last Modified
2 May 2018 08:18:03 UTC
URI
http://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/funder/717
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