Clause 39

As laid out in the EU document LIST OF ALL SPECIAL CLAUSES APPLICABLE TO THE FP7 MODEL GRANT AGREEMENT FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND EURATOM - Version 6, 18/12/2009. Page 18

Special clause 39

OPEN ACCESS (SPECIFIC TO THE THEMATIC AREAS "HEALTH", "ENERGY", "ENVIRONMENT (INCLUDING CLIMATE CHANGE)", "INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES" (CHALLENGE 2), AND "SOCIOECONOMIC SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES", AS WELL AS TO THE ACTIVITIES "RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES" (E-INFRASTRUCTURES), AND "SCIENCE IN SOCIETY")

In addition to Article II.30.4, beneficiaries shall deposit an electronic copy of the published version or the final manuscript accepted for publication of a scientific publication relating to foreground published before or after the final report in an institutional or subject-based repository at the moment of publication. Beneficiaries are required to make their best efforts to ensure that this electronic copy becomes freely and electronically available to anyone through this repository: - immediately if the scientific publication is published "open access", i.e. if an electronic version is also available free of charge via the publisher, or within [X¹] months of publication.

¹ The number X will be 6 months in the thematic areas "Health", "Energy", "Environment (including Climate Change)", and "Information & communication technologies" (Challenge 2) and the activity "Research infrastructures" (e-infrastructures), and 12 months in the thematic area "Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities" and the activity "Science in Society".

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