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Making Your Publications Open Access

Open and sustainable publishing models enable the sharing of scholarship at reasonable costs. By making your publications Open Access you increase their impact and ensure they are available to a wider audience.

Meeting Tri-Agency Open Access Requirements

The Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications requires grant recipients awarded funding wholly or in part by CIHR*, NSERC and SSHRC after May 1, 2015 to make their peer-reviewed journal publications freely accessible online within 12 months of publication.

How To Comply

To comply, you can choose one of two routes:  

Also, make sure to acknowledge the source of funding that supported the research in all peer-reviewed publications, quoting the funder and funding reference number.

Compliance Quick Guides

 *CIHR require grant recipients awarded January 1, 2008 and onward to deposit both their journal publications and research data in an established archive or repository.  See: Research Data Management

Other research outputs (for example conference proceedings, books, chapters or creative writing) are excluded from the new policy requirements. See also: A Joint Statement issued by the Vice-Principal (Research) & Vice Provost and University Librarian, on the Tri-Agency Policy.  March 3rd 2015.