Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Tri-Agency and Other Publication Policies
Funding Agency Policies
Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Publications
On February 25, 2025, the Tri-Agencies published it's draft revisions for the Open Access Policy. Grant recipients will be required to deposit peer-reviewed journal articles into a Canadian repository immediately upon publication of an article, even when the article is freely available on the publisher website. This brings Canada into alignment with other regions around the world. This policy will come into effect on January 1, 2026, and will require the version of record (VoR), or the author-accepted manuscript (AAM) be deposited. Pre-prints will only be accepted where the journal prohibits the VoR or AAM. It will apply to only journal articles, and a rights retention strategy will be applied.
More details to come
Important Information for Memorial University Authors
In April 2012, the Senate of Memorial University approved the Memorial University Statement on Open Access, which supports and encourages the open dissemination of research output.
The 2025 Draft, Revised Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications can be found here.
Learn more about the policy and its implementation:
For more information on funder policies from around the world, check out OpenDOAR.
OA Declarations
Student Statement on Right to Research: Scholarly knowledge is part of the common wealth of humanity. Learning and inquiry are impeded when scholars lack access to fellow researchers’ work, and when students lack access to the work of scholars before them.
Budapest Initiative: Removing access barriers to [academic] literature will accelerate research, enrich education, share the learning of the rich with the poor and the poor with the rich, make this literature as useful as it can be, and lay the foundation for uniting humanity in a common intellectual conversation and quest for knowledge.
Bethesda Statement: Our organizations sponsor and nurture scientific research to promote the creation and dissemination of new ideas and knowledge for the public benefit. The Internet has fundamentally changed the practical and economic realities of distributing published scientific knowledge and makes possible substantially increased access.
Berlin Declaration: The Internet has fundamentally changed the practical and economic realities of distributing scientific knowledge and cultural heritage. For the first time ever, the Internet now offers the chance to constitute a global and interactive representation of human knowledge, including cultural heritage and the guarantee of worldwide access.
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