Tri-Agency_Open_Access_Policy_on_Publications
Canada introduced the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications[1] in May 2015 to mandate open access to research articles funded by Canada's three major research agencies: the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council[2] (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council[3] (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research[4] (CIHR). CIHR has had an open access policy[5] since 2008 and the new Tri-Agency policy is largely based on CIHR's pre-existing policy.
The policy stipulates that peer-reviewed journal articles produced from funded research must be made open access within 12 months of publication by either:
- publication in an open access journal
- archiving in a subject repository or institutional repository