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[Timothy Vollmer <tvol AT creativecommons.org>]

Hi all:

Horizon 2020 launched with €15 billion over first two years

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-1232_en.htm

There's a new provision that says that EU funded articles should be green OA and that embargoes will be a 6 month maximum for the life and physical sciences, and 12 months for the social sciences and humanities. Here's the link to the model grant agreement: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/mga/gga/h2020-mga-gga-multi_en.pdf 

Articles - Pg 61

Each beneficiary must ensure open access (free of charge, online access for any user) to all peer-reviewed scientific publications relating to its results. Each beneficiary must, as soon as possible and at the latest upon publication, deposit a machine-readable electronic copy of the published version or final peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication in a repository for scientific publications. Moreover, the beneficiary must aim to deposit at the same time the research data needed to validate the results presented in the deposited scientific publications. Each beneficiary must ensure open access to the deposited publication - via the repository -
at the latest on publication, if an electronic version is available for free via the publisher, or within six months of publication (twelve months of publication for publications in the social sciences and humanities in any other case.)

Data - Pg 62 (this is optional)

Deposit in a research data repository and take measures to make it possible for third parties to access, mine, exploit, reproduce and disseminate - free of charge for any user - the following: (i)the data, including associated metadata needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications as soon as possible; (ii)other data, including associated metadata, as specified and within the deadlines laid down in the "data management plan" (see Annex 1); (b)provide information - via the repository - about tools and instruments at the disposal of the beneficiaries and necessary for validating the results (and where possible, provide the tools and instruments themselves.