Self-Archiving Mandates

1. All researchers are required to lodge their publications resulting in whole or in part from SFI-funded research in an open access repository as soon as possible after publication.

2. The publication to be so deposited relates to accepted peer-reviewed publications, conference proceedings and technical reports.

3. Publisher’s copyright, licensing and embargo policies must be respected.

4. The protection of intellectual property, in any form, arising from the publication takes precedence over open access depositing and indeed over any form of publication.

5. The time by which open access depositing is to take place ranges from immediately on publication, if possible, up to six months from the date of publication.

6. Institutional and disciplinary repositories should be used in preference to an author’s own website. In the Life Sciences, PubMed Central and/or a future European PubMed Central should be used. Information on the Irish universities’ institutional repositories is available through IREL-Open

7. The publication to be deposited is to be the publisher’s version, if permitted, or the author’s final version. It is required that there be a link from the deposited version to the publication site, and also that the DOI (Document Object Identifier) be used.

8. On publication, whether in print or online with a DOI, metadata must be deposited in an open access (institutional, disciplinary, other) repository. Metadata comprises at a minimum the full bibliographic data.

9. Suitable open access repositories should make provision for long-term preservation of, and continuing free public access to, their contents.

10. Research monographs are within the scope of peer-reviewed publications. They must be deposited in an open access repository as soon as possible after publication, subject to the copyright which has been assigned to the publisher.

11. Wherever possible supporting research data should be made available in an open access repository at the time of publication of the research publication. Research data includes associated metadata and supporting documentation.

12. In the interest of reproducibility of scientific results, wherever possible, software should be made available in an open access repository at the time of publication of the research publication. Software is understood to include documentation on usage, and on methods and algorithms employed.