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Publications funded in whole or in part by Horizon Europe grants must meet the Horizon Europe open access requirements. Find out how to comply, and what funding is available.
The Horizon Europe open access policy applies to peer-reviewed scientific publications supported in whole or in part by these grants. This includes ERC calls for funding under the Horizon Europe ERC Work Programme (see the ERC open access guidelines).
These outputs must be made open access in a repository on or before publication under the Creative Commons CC BY licence. Monographs and long-form outputs may use the CC BY-NC or CC BY-ND licence. The policy is set out in the Horizon Europe Model Grant Agreement, and is similar to the Wellcome and UKRI policies. It also contains open data requirements. There is further information on the Horizon Europe open science page.
Complying with the policy
Gold open access
- Journals in UCL's transformative agreements are compliant. To use the agreements, the article's corresponding author must be at UCL. Proceed with submission, following the links to publisher instructions in the list of journals in UCL's agreements, and choose CC BY when accepted for publication.
- Fully open access journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals are compliant. Some fully open access journals are included in UCL's agreements (see above). If your journal is not included in an agreement, it may be eligible for funding via UCL's Open Access Team if it also acknowledges UCL-held Wellcome Trust, UK Research Council (UKRI), CRUK and/or BHF funds.
Gold open access costs for articles in other fully open access journals can be paid from Horizon Europe grants, provided they are incurred during the duration of the project. The Open Research Europe platform is available to authors during and after the end of their grants.
You also need to upload the Gold published paper to Zenodo, including the information specified in the Horizon Europe Model Grant Agreement (page 105).
Green open access
If your journal does not comply through Gold/fully open access, use rights retention. Under UCL’s updated Publications Policy, authors publishing in subscription journals outside UCL’s transformative agreements can still meet Horizon Europe's requirements:
- Accepted manuscripts can be made open access immediately in UCL Discovery and Zenodo, without an embargo, under the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY).
- Upload the accepted manuscript to UCL’s Research Publications Service (RPS) and Zenodo on or before publication. Choose public visibility in Zenodo (no embargo), when you upload, and include the information specified in the Horizon Europe Model Grant Agreement (page 105).
- Research degree students publishing without a UCL staff co-author are not currently covered by rights retention. They must include the required statement at submission, as set out in the Rights Retention Support Pages.
Contact UCL's Open Access Team for further advice.