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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Funder Name

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [English]

Funder URL

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/

Identifiers

FundRef DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000865
ROR ID: https://ror.org/0456r8d26

Country

United States of America

Group Memberships

Plan S Funders

Funder Policy

Open access publishing requirements for outputs of research as described by the funder.

Requires Open Access Archiving

Requirement	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Requires Open Access Archiving
What to archive	Any publications
When to archive	At the date of publication
Where to archive	Named repository (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/) Appropriate institutional repository Appropriate disciplinary repository Any appropriate repository
OA Archiving license	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 new projects from	1st 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	Open Access Policy [Policy]: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/policies-and-resources/open-access-policy Open Access Policy [Policy]: https://openaccess.gatesfoundation.org/open-access-policy/

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	1st 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.

Record Information

ID	961
Date Created	2014-12-08 09:31:07
Last Modified	2023-08-23 08:53:20
URI	https://beta.sherpa.ac.uk/id/funder/961