Brief on Open Access requirements in H2020 To support CORE Organic Cofund and the projects funded under it

Summary

It is a requirement by Horizon 2020 that all peer-reviewed scientific publications resulting from activities funded by H2020 must be Open Access and made available, please find further information here. H2020 also encourages Open Access archiving of other types of publications such as conference abstracts and proceedings, books, reports and monographs. “Made available” refers to archiving the publication in a repository for scientific publications, and this must be at the latest at the date of publication. Even if an embargo exists, the metadata (information about the publication) must be made available on that date.
This brief is intended to support CORE Organic projects and their participants in their implementation of this requirement. CORE Organic Cofund is funded under H2020 (with the grant agreement number 727495). While the projects funded under CORE Organic Cofund are primarily bound by the contract rules set out by the national funding bodies, it is, however, relevant for the projects to follow the Open Access requirement under H2020, since H2020 is cofunding the projects.