Due to the growing demand for a visible and public return on funded research, more and more funding agencies are adopting open access or data-archiving mandates as a condition of funding. Here are some of the largest non-governmental policies:
We have adopted an Open Access policy that enables the unrestricted access and reuse of all peer-reviewed published research funded, in whole or in part, by the foundation, including any underlying data sets.
These policies also are intended to ensure that our research furthers the public good and thus set forth guidelines for making research materials, tools, and publications widely accessible within the scientific community and beyond.
The Wellcome Trust supports unrestricted access to the published output of research as a fundamental part of its charitable mission and a public benefit to be encouraged wherever possible.
New policy, updated on July 24, 2017.
International list of funding agencies' open access publishing, archiving, and data archiving policies
A partnership of funding organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs. Inaugural members are: the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the American Heart Association, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The Office of Research Services supports DePaul faculty by facilitating applications for extramural funding and managing awards, offering a robust internal grants program, ensuring research complies with relevant policies, sponsoring events, fostering research development, and more. To find out more, see below: