“Quick Facts
- Open access is the practice of providing free and unrestricted online access to research publications.
- In keeping with the global movement towards open access, the harmonized policy requires that researchers receiving grants from CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC make their resulting peer-reviewed journal articles freely available online within 12 months of publication.
- Researchers can comply with the open access policy in two ways: ‘self-archiving’ by depositing their peer-reviewed manuscript to an online repository that will make the manuscript freely accessible within 12 months of publication; or submitting their manuscript to a journal that offers open access within 12 months of publication.”
Implementation Date: For research funded in whole or in part by SSHRC, this policy applies to all grants awarded May 1, 2015 and onward. While not required, researchers holding grants that were awarded prior to May 1, 2015 are encouraged to adhere to the requirements of this policy.
Various resources to assist researchers in complying with this policy can be found in the Toolbox.
More information and resources for Scholarly Publishing and Open Access at Western is available at Western Libraries
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