Arts and Humanities Research Council

Funder Information

Funder Name
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) [English]
Funder URLs
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Pages/Home.aspx [English]
Identifiers
Country
United Kingdom
Group Memberships

Requires Open Access Archiving

Requirement
Arts and Humanities 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
Any appropriate repository
OA Archiving Licence
CC BY-NC [applies to all]
Archiving Conditions
Authors are encouraged to retain the copyright of their publications
Special Conditions
AHRC encourages articles to be deposited with a Creative Commons Attribution License., RCUK policy requires that the manuscript is made available without restriction on non‐commercial re‐use. The policy does not specify a particular licence, and the requirement can be met by use of the Creative Commons Attribution non‐commercial licence

Requires Open Access Publishing

Requirement
Arts and Humanities Research Council requires Open Access Publishing
Where to publish
  • as an article with immediate paid-for open access (Optional)
  • in a peer-reviewed open access journal (Optional)
OA Publishing Licence
  • CC BY [applies if an OA fee is paid]
  • CC BY [applies when an OA journal]
Conditions
  • Publisher must allow immediate deposit of the published version of the article in any repository
  • Costs of open access publication may be reimbursed by this funder

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
Notes
  • 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.
  • Open Access fees may be reimbursed via block grants to institutions
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Requires Open Data Archiving

Requirement
Arts and Humanities Research Council requires Open Data Archiving
Types of Data
Research Data
When to archive
At the earliest possible opportunity
Where to archive
  • Any appropriate repository (Required )
  • Named repository (Optional )
Named Repositories
Archaeology Data Service (ADS) http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/ (Optional)
Special Conditions
Must be stored for at least 3 years after end of grant., Archeaology Grants depositing in Archaeology Data Service (ADS) must consult ADS on formats to deposit., ADS deposits after 31 March 2013 will incur a charge for deposit., ADS deposit must occur within 3 months of the end of the project
Policy links

Record Information

ID
698
Date Created
23 January 2013 10:44:00 UTC
Last Modified
11 February 2021 18:08:39 UTC
URI
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/funder/698
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