How the Horizon 2020 Open Access requirements are met

The European Commission has published Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data (version 1.0, 11-Dec-2013).

In addition to basic bibliographic information about deposited publications extra information is expected in the following fields:

Property ‘EU funding acknowledgement’

DC Field

dc:contributor

Usage Instruction

Values for this field must include one of the following applicable terms:

  • ["European Union (EU)" and "Horizon 2020"]
  • ["Euratom" and "Euratom research and training programme 2014-­2018"]

Property ‘Peer Reviewed’

DC Field

dc:type

Usage Instruction

info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Property ‘Embargo Period’

If the research outcome is published under an embargo please specify the embargo end date and the embargoed access mode.

DC Field

dc:date

Usage Instruction

info:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/<YYYY-MM-DD>

DC Field

dc:rights

Usage Instruction

info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess

Property ‘Project Information’

DC Field

dc:relation

Usage Instruction

info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Funder/FundingProgram/ProjectID/[Jurisdiction]/[ProjectName]/[ProjectAcronym]/

Example

Project information for the OpenAIRE2020 project would be encoded as:

<dc:relation>info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/643410/EU/OpenAIRE2020/OpenAIRE2020/

Property ‘Publication Date’

DC Field

dc:date

Usage Instruction

Property ‘Persistent Identifier for the Research Outcome’

DC Field

dc:identifier

dc:relation

Usage Instruction

Property ‘License’

DC Field

dc:rights

Usage Instruction

It is recommended to provide a URL which provides the location where the license can be read, e.g.:

http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0

Property ‘Persistent Identifiers for Authors / Contributors’

DC Field

dc:creator

dc:contributor

Usage Instruction

Lastname, Firstname; id_orcid 0000-0000-0000-0000