Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Funder Information

Funder Name
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [English]
Funder URLs
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ [English]
Identifiers
Country
United States of America
Group Memberships
Plan S Funders

Requires Open Access Archiving

Requirement
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation requires Open Access Archiving
What to archive
Any publications
Publication version
Full text
When to archive
At the earliest possible opportunity
Where to archive
  • Named repository
  • Any appropriate repository
Named Repositories
PubMed Central https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
Metadata Record
Metadata must be deposited at the date of publication
OA Archiving Licence
CC BY v4 [applies to all]
Special Conditions
Publishers may apply for a 12 month embargo period on accessibility of article, up until January 2017.

Requires Open Access Publishing

Requirement
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation requires Open Access Publishing
Where to publish
  • as an article with immediate paid-for open access
  • in a peer-reviewed open access journal
OA Publishing Licence
CC BY v4 [applies to all]
Conditions
Costs of open access publication may be reimbursed by this funder

General Open Access Policy

Effective for all current projects from:
1 January 2015
Application scope
Applies to all fully or partly funded projects
Policy Links

Requires Open Data Archiving

Requirement
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation requires Open Data Archiving
Types of Data
Research Data
When to archive
Immediately after publication of results
Where to archive
  • Appropriate disciplinary repository (Preferred )
  • Appropriate institutional repository (Optional )
  • Any appropriate repository (Optional )
Effective for all new projects from
1 January 2015
Special Conditions
Publshers may apply for a 12 month embargo period on accessibility of underlying data, up until January 2017.
Policy links

Record Information

ID
961
Date Created
8 December 2014 09:31:07 UTC
Last Modified
11 February 2021 18:08:53 UTC
URI
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/funder/961
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