Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Funder Information

Funder Name
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [English]
Funder URLs
https://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
When to archive
At the date of publication
Where to archive
  • Named repository
  • Appropriate institutional repository
  • Appropriate disciplinary 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
Accepted articles shall be deposited immediately upon publication in PubMed Central (PMC), or in another openly accessible repository, For accepted articles in journals not listed in the DOAJ:, grantee is required to deposit the accepted manuscript in PubMed Central with a CC BY 4.0 license so that it is available concurrent with the first version published by the journal., Grantees are encouraged to deposit Funded Research consisting of their submitted manuscript, and its subsequent versions, on a preprint server under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Requires Open Access Publishing

Requirement
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation requires Open Access Publishing
Where to publish
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
Special Conditions
Effective as of January 1, 2021, the Foundation shall only pay fees for articles publishing in fully Open Access journals.

General Open Access Policy

Effective for all current projects from:
1 January 2021
Application scope
Applies to all fully or partly funded projects
Notes
  • Policy does not apply to:
  • Review articles and other works of synthesis or opinion/analysis where grantees are invited to contribute on a specific topic.
  • Researchers publishing monographs or book chapters.
  • Grantees shall retain sufficient copyright in Funded Research to ensure that articles accepted for publication are deposited into an open-access repository and published under the CC BY 4.0 or equivalent license.
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 2021
Special Conditions
Each accepted article must be accompanied by a Data Availability Statement that describes where any primary data, associated metadata, original software, and any additional relevant materials can be found.
Policy links

Record Information

ID
961
Date Created
8 December 2014 09:31:07 UTC
Last Modified
23 August 2023 08:53:20 UTC
URI
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/funder/961
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