cOAlition S has announced the Québec Research Funds (QRF) as the latest organisation – and first North American public funder – to join the international consortium of research funding and performing organisations committed to delivering full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications.
Representing almost a quarter of Canada’s scientific community, the Québec Research Funds support excellence in research and the training of researchers in the fields of natural sciences, mathematical sciences, engineering, health, social sciences, humanities, arts and literature in order to stimulate the development of knowledge and innovation. In 2019-2020 the QRF spent 253 million dollars in support of research by providing grants, scholarships and awards.
The QRF has announced that they are joining cOAlition S to implement immediate open access to scientific publications resulting from the research they fund. Since 2019, the QRF require that scientific articles generated by the research they fund are made available in open access within 12 months of publication. By joining cOAlition S, the QRF will amend their Open Access Policy to align with Plan S and require that from March 2023, all QRF funded research must be made open access at the time of publication. This change will be of particular benefit to those who do not have access to institutional subscriptions to scientific journals, but also more broadly to citizens.
Tags: Open access policy, Québec Research Funds.
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