Koc University Institutional Repository

Open Access is defined as the practice of providing online access to scientific information that is free of charge to the end user and that is reusable.

“All beneficiaries of H2020 funding must provide open access (free of charge, online access for any user) to all peer-reviewed publications by depositing them into a repository.”

Self-archiving / 'green' open access – the author, or a representative, archives (deposits) the published article or the final peer-reviewed manuscript in an online repository before, at the same time as, or after publication. Some publishers request that open access be granted only after an embargo period has elapsed. Self-archiving regulations differ between publishers. Authors have to check their publishing agreement to find out whether self-archiving is allowed.

Open access publishing / 'gold' open access - an article is immediately published in open access mode. In this model, the payment of publication costs is shifted away from subscribing readers. The most common business model is based on one-off payments by authors. These costs, often referred to as Article Processing Charges (APCs) are usually born by the researcher's university or research institute or the agency funding the research. In other cases, the costs of open access publishing are covered by subsidies or other funding models. Copyright will remain with the authors while a public license (usually Creative Commons license CC-BY) is applied to the article.

“The article must always be deposited in a repository, even if the gold route has been chosen.”

Most common type of the Peer-reviewed scientific publication is the journal article. However, beneficiaries are strongly encouraged to provide OA to other types of scientific publications, including monographs, books, and conference proceedings. Depending on the type of journal in which your journal article has been published you may either deposit.

• The publisher’s version, if it is a genuine OA publication (see above “Gold”OA).
• Your final manuscript (also referred to as “post-print” version). In this case you should make sure that your publishing contracts comply with the Horizon 2020 requirements.

In a repository for scientific publications: institutional (Koç University Institutional Repository), subject-based (like ArXiv.org or Europe PubMed Central) or centralized repositories are all acceptable choices.

Koç University Institutional Repository works towards matching the requirements of Horizon 2020 in terms of metadata and compliance with the EU repository infrastructure OpenAire.

• An electronic copy of the publications arising from Horizon 2020 projects must be deposited as soon as possible and at the latest on publication in a repository for scientific publications.
• This copy has to be made freely accessible no later than six months after its initial publication (or twelve months in the humanities and social sciences).

Mandate on OA to publications

Article 29.2 of the Model Grant Agreement sets out detailed legal requirements on open access to scientific publications: under Horizon 2020, each beneficiary must ensure OA to all peer-reviewed scientific publications relating to its results.

To meet this requirement, beneficiaries must, at the very least, ensure that any scientific peer-reviewed publications can be read online, downloaded and printed.

The OA mandate comprises 2 steps:

• depositing publications in repositories
• providing open access to them

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/amga/h2020-amga_en.pdf