What exactly does the CIHR Open Access Policy require?
CIHR policy requires that recipients of CIHR grants awarded after January 2008 must: • ensure that all research papers generated from CIHR funded projects are freely accessible through the Publisher’s website or an online repository within six months of publication; • deposit bioinformatics, atomic, and molecular coordinate data into the appropriate public database (e.g., gene sequences deposited in GenBank) immediately upon publication of research results; • retain original data sets for a minimum of five years (or longer if other policies apply); and • acknowledge CIHR support by quoting the Funding Reference Number (FRN) in journal publications. The FRN will be found in the letter sent by CIHR to acknowledge a successful grant application) NB: all authors of any journal article based on work supported by a CIHR grant must quote their FRN in the article posted for open access if they wish to apply for a renewal CIHR grant based on that work.
