Open Access

All journal articles resulting from AHA funding be made freely available in PubMed Central and linked to an AHA award within 12 months of publication. Applies to recipients of non-exempt awards beginning January 1, 2015.

Policy is effective for all grants awarded from January 1, 2015 and will apply to all funded research from Gates Foundation funding agreements consisting of manuscript submission and data depositions made starting January 1, 2021.

All published research resulting from a Ford Foundation funding agreement made on or after February 1, 2015.

In effect since 2014.

The new Open Access to Publications policy is in effect on January 1, 2026. HHMI scientists subject to this policy must make original research articles that represent major contributions from their laboratories publicly available as initial and revised preprints. These preprints must be deposited on a designated preprint server under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Researchers are expected to publish outputs as soon as they are ready for reuse. All underlying outputs must be openly published when or before (1) they are referenced publicly or (2) the findings are shared with Astera in a written report.

This searchable database provides information about the open access publishing and archiving policies of many key funding agencies.

The World Bank recognizes an open access policy for its published documents and reports.

The MLA is working with members to develop a set of new professional practices and standards for open, publicly accessible communication – new modes of editing, new forms of peer review – and are committed to the idea that the role of the society in the years ahead will be to support those new practices.

The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities of 22 October 2003 is one of the milestones of the Open Access movement.

This 2001 initiative launched by the Open Society Institute established a foundation of open access principles relating to research literature.