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H2020 and ANR (before 2022)

• The published version or the version accepted for publication (postprint) must be deposited in an open archive, with a possible embargo of 6 months in science, technology and medicine, and 12 months in the humanities and social sciences.
• The funder must be mentioned in the metadata of the deposit.

Horizon Europe and ANR (from AAPG 2022): immediate open access

• The published version or the version accepted for publication (postprint) must be deposited immediately in HAL or in LillOA (depending on the research unit's open archive policy), at the latest at the time of publication.
• The funder must be mentioned in the metadata of the deposit.
• The publication must have a Creative Commons Attribution International Public Licence (CC BY) or equivalent licence.
• Only publication costs (APCs) in fully Open Access journals are eligible for reimbursement. Publication costs in so-called hybrid journals are excluded.
  • Definition of a hybrid journal: a journal containing both articles accessible only with a subscription and articles in open access. The journal offers authors the option, subject to a charge, of making their article freely available on the journal's website. The rest of the articles remain available by subscription. (Source: Couperin)

The 3 possible ways to provide immediate open access to publications :

• Publication in a full open access journal.
• Publication in a subscription-based journal, under a CC-BY licence, using the Rights Retention Strategy.
• Publication in a subscription journal that is part of a "Publish & Read" agreement that provides for an exemption from APCs: check on our website, Open access publication agreements with publishers. You should still check that the publisher's version will be under a CC-BY licence, and if not, put a CC-BY licence on the author's versions.

Do you have any doubts about the strategy to adopt or the compliance of the journal in which you plan to publish? We're here to help!

Research funding agencies now require a Data Management Plan (DMP) to be drawn up, and may even require that scientific data from the projects they fund be deposited.

ANR
Since 2019, the ANR has required the drafting of a data management plan (DMP), a deliverable that must be filed in your personal space on the ANR website, within the first 6 months of the research project, and then updated throughout the project.

To help with the drafting of the DMP, the ANR provides a DMP template available on the OPIDoR DMP platform.

H2020 (2014-2020)
Open Research Data Pilot: for certain themes, and on a voluntary basis, this scheme encouraged beneficiaries to open up their data and draw up a data management plan. It has been extended to all work programmes and has become the default approach.

The European Commission requires project leaders to draw up a data management plan (DMP), which must be uploaded to the Participant Portal in accordance with the following timetable:

• an initial version of the DMP within the first 6 months of the research project
• an updated intermediate version for the mid-term evaluation
• the complete final version at the end of the project

The H2020 DMP template is available on the DMP OPIDoR platform.

The European Commission asks recipients of European funding to make openly available as quickly as possible the data needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications, in compliance with the FAIR principles. Opening data means depositing it in a data repository. It also means depositing the metadata associated with the data, i.e. the metadata describing the datasets.

Data may - for a variety of reasons - need to be left closed: they are "as open as possible, as closed as necessary". Their closure must nevertheless be justified in the Data Management Plan.

Horizon Europe (2021-2027)
In this new European funding programme, there is a strong emphasis on data management: beneficiaries must manage the digital research data generated as part of the action in a responsible manner, in accordance with the FAIR principles and by taking the following measures:

-1- The European Commission requires project leaders to draw up a data management plan (DMP), which must be uploaded to the Participant Portal in accordance with the following timetable:

• an initial version of the DMP within the first 6 months of the research project
• an updated intermediate version for the mid-term evaluation
• the complete final version at the end of the project

The Horizon Europe DMP template is available on the DMP OPIDoR platform.

-2- Data must be deposited in a trusted data repository:

• As quickly as possible
• In the manner specified in the DMP
• In open access, under a CC-BY licence or equivalent, unless free access to the data:
  • would be contrary to the legitimate interests of the beneficiary, including commercial exploitation, or
  • would be contrary to any other constraint, in particular the competitive interests of the EU or the obligations of the beneficiary.
• If some or all of the data cannot be made freely available, this must be justified in the DMP.
• For some actions, data must be deposited in a federated repository within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

-3- The metadata of the deposited data must:

• be open under Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC 0) or equivalent
• comply with the FAIR principles
• provide information on at least the following elements: datasets (description, date of deposit, author(s), location and embargo); Horizon Europe or Euratom funding; name of the funded project, acronym and number; licence conditions; persistent identifiers for the dataset, the authors involved in the action and, if possible, for their organisations and the grant.
• Where appropriate, metadata should include persistent identifiers for publications and other related research outputs.

Note: Costs associated with data management are eligible for reimbursement.