Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Funder Information

Funder Name
  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [Portuguese]
  • Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation [English]
Funder URLs
http://www.fct.pt/ [Portuguese]
Identifiers
Country
Portugal
Group Memberships
Plan S Funders

Requires Open Access Archiving

Requirement
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia requires Open Access Archiving
What to archive
  • Conference papers
  • Peer-reviewed publications
  • Any publications
Publication version
  • Publisher's version (Optional)
  • Author's final version (Required)
When to archive
At the earliest possible opportunity
Permitted Embargo
6 months
Where to archive
  • Any appropriate repository
  • Named repository
Named Repositories
RCAAP https://www.rcaap.pt/
Metadata Record
Metadata must be deposited at the date of publication
Archiving Conditions
Publisher's copyright, licensing and embargo policies must be respected
Special Conditions
Must be archived in a repository within RCAAP, Maximum embargo period for social sciences and humanities is 12 months. Maximum embargo period for scientific areas is 6 months, FCT recommends that authors use a CC-BY license on their publications, Deposit in a RCAAP repository does not prevent deposition in other repositories, such as PubMed Central or ArXiv

Encourages Open Access Publishing

Requirement
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia encourages Open Access Publishing
Where to publish
  • in a peer-reviewed open access journal (Optional)
  • as an article with immediate paid-for open access (Alternative)
Conditions
Costs of open access publication may be reimbursed by this funder
Special Conditions
Although this cost is considered eligible by FCT, APC payment is not a recommendation of FCT, since compliance with Open Access standards does not imply direct publishing in Open Access., Publications where payment has been made to make them open access, must have a CC-BY license

General Open Access Policy

Effective for all current projects from:
5 May 2014
Application scope
  • Applies to all fully or partly funded projects
  • Applies to work conducted using funder's facilities
Notes
Books, book chapters and Thesis must aslo be deposited, please see policy for details of relevant embargo periods.
Policy Links

Encourages Open Data Archiving

Requirement
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia encourages Open Data Archiving
Types of Data
  • Research Data
  • Specimens and Samples
  • Associated Metadata
When to archive
At the earliest possible opportunity
Where to archive
Any appropriate repository (Required )
Effective for all new projects from
5 May 2014
Data Access Cost
Costs of access provision may be recovered on a not-for-profit basis.
Special Conditions
Projects must submit a data management plan
Policy links
policy on management and sharing of data and other results arising from FCT-funded research [Policy]: https://www.fct.pt/documentos/PoliticaAcessoAberto_Dados.pdf

Record Information

ID
1109
Date Created
7 March 2016 09:49:24 UTC
Last Modified
5 March 2021 11:53:23 UTC
URI
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/funder/1109
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