Horizon

• All peer-reviewed scientific publications related to results from the project (primarily research articles published in academic journals; also book chapters in edited books, and long form publications)
• Scientific research data: data underlying publications and/or other data (such as curated but unpublished datasets or raw data). For information and contact details for our Research Data Management Service, please see our webpages on Research Data Management.

There are some differences between Horizon 2020 (2014-2020) and Horizon Europe (2021-2027).

Details are set out by programme grant agreement.

If you were funded under Horizon 2020, refer to the relevant advice by programme grant agreement.

If you are funded under Horizon funding from 2021, refer to the relevant advice by programme grant agreement, summarised here:

1. Acknowledge your funding: including grant project name, acronym and number. 

2. Include a data access statement in your manuscript, even if there are no data associated, or they are inaccessible. The statement should specify how the data underlying your findings can be accessed by other researchers, or give a reason why they cannot be accessed. Wellcome have some examples of good practice 

3. Choose a publishing venue that meets the open access obligations: 

• The Journal Checker Tool is available to make it easier to check if a journal offers a compliant route. 

• You may choose to publish on the funder’s publishing platform Open Research Europe. If you are involved in projects or grants funded by the European Commission, publication costs for original research related to your project are covered. At least one author must be involved in a running or completed eligible project. Further information in the FAQs, policies, and how it works. Articles that pass peer review are indexed in external databases such as Europe PMC and PubMed. 

4. Notify publishers about your grant obligations regarding open access, for example by including the following rights retention statement in the funding acknowledgement section of your manuscript: 

“This work was funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe grant [grant number]. As set out in the Grant Agreement, beneficiaries must ensure that at the latest at the time of publication, open access is provided via a trusted repository to the published version or the final peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication under the latest available version of the Creative Commons Attribution International Public Licence (CC BY) or a licence with equivalent rights"*. 

*The licence should be as applicable according to the publication type: 

• For articles and book chapters in edited books, the Creative Commons International Attribution licence (CC-BY) or a licence with equivalent rights;
• For monographs and other long-text formats, the licence may exclude commercial uses and derivative works (so the licence in the notification above may be e.g. CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC-BY-NC-ND or equivalent licence). 

5. Check carefully any publishing agreement you are asked to sign, which may conflict with your funder obligations: contact us and your funder for advice before signing, or if you encounter difficulties in using the rights retention statement required by your funder. 

6. Ensure your paper is deposited in a repository on publication under the correct licence terms. This should be done at the latest at the time of publication.

• There is an overview of repositories on the ERC website.
• Upload your paper in CRIS for SORA for REF, and in Europe PMC if you are acknowledging another funder that requires deposit there (your publisher may upload to PubMed/Europe PMC)
• The following are not considered open access repositories: Publisher/journal websites, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, personal websites and databases or project websites, cloud storage services (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.).

If you are considering publishing under a different licence, please contact us before you submit or sign an agreement with the publisher, so we can help advise whether the licence will meet your funder requirements.

Model grant agreement also says:

“Beneficiaries (or authors) must retain sufficient intellectual property rights to comply with the open access requirements.”

For an overview of rights retention, have a look at our Library webpage here about it.

You may be able to meet the requirement to publish under a CC-BY licence without paying an upfront open access fee, via one of our read and publish deals, or by using a rights retention statement when submitting to a subscription journal, and making your accepted MS available immediately on publication under the terms of the relevant CC licence.

If not, please ensure you have identified the source of funding to pay any open access charges before you submit to publish. Some funds for publication will have been costed into your original research grant. To ensure that there are funds available please email Jane Boland, Research Funding Manager (EU Funding). If you prefer to use the Open Access fund application form to send us details of the journal[s] you’re considering submitting to for advice, it can be found at the end of our page Paying open access fees (sgul.ac.uk)

Model grant agreement states:

“Only publication fees in full open access venues for peer-reviewed scientific publications are eligible for reimbursement”

You will need to acknowledge fully all the funders and grants from which the research reported has arisen, and ensure that your article complies with their open access policies.

Ask us! Get in touch before submission: openaccess@sgul.ac.uk