Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) (16 Aug 2006)
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NERC is committed to the principles articulated in the RCUK statement
on access to research outputs http://www.nerc.ac.uk/about/access/
and to ensuring that the ideas and knowledge derived from its research, survey
and monitoring activities are made available as widely, rapidly and
effectively as practicable. To support access to environmental data
NERC already requires that award holders offer a copy of any dataset
resulting from NERC-funded activities to its data centres.
From 1 October 2006 NERC will require that, for new funding awards, an
electronic copy of any published peer-reviewed paper, supported in whole
or in part by NERC-funding, is deposited at the earliest opportunity in
an e-print repository. NERC also encourages award-holders to deposit
published peer-reviewed papers arising from awards made before October
2006.
NERC will establish an e-print repository to improve access to the outputs
of its research centres. NERC staff will be expected to deposit copies
of any published peer-reviewed papers, supported in whole or in part
by NERC-funding, in the NERC repository. NERC award holders who do not
have access to an appropriate repository through their host institution
will be able to deposit in the NERC repository.
Full implementation of these requirements requires that current copyright
and licensing policies, such as embargo periods, are maintained by
publishers and respected by authors. Under this policy, at no time
will individual authors be required to negotiate copyright and licensing
arrangements with their publishers. NERC will work with publishers to
put in place mechanisms for publishers submitting publications on behalf
of authors, where this is possible. The version of the paper deposited
will depend upon publishers� policies on deposit in repositories.
Contributed by Harnad, Stevan
| MANDATE TYPE: | Funder Mandate |
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| REPOSITORY URL(s): | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/ |
| Depositing User: | Tim Brody |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2006 13:47 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2011 15:03 |
| URI: | http://roarmap.eprints.org/id/eprint/28 |
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