Financing of open science and obligations for sites of research

In line with the RCF funding terms and conditions, the costs of ensuring immediate open access to peer-reviewed articles can be included in the overheads of the site of research.

The open access costs to be taken into account in the overheads mean that the site of research can finance the open access of the articles produced by the project it supports, even if the funding period for the project has already expired. The RCF obliges the site of research to take into account in the overheads percentage the funding needed for the site’s research projects to implement open access. Furthermore, the site of research is obliged to ensure that the project meets the open access requirements set out in the funding terms and conditions and to finance open access to publications accordingly. Through cooperation between the RCF and the sites of research, the practical implementation and financing of open access must be made as easy as possible for researchers.

The costs of open access to peer-reviewed articles refer to the following costs:

1. article processing charges required by open-access journals The RCF encourages international scientific publishers to join the cOAlition S Journal Comparison Service, which aims to shed light on publishing fees and services.
2. maintenance and development costs for self-archiving service maintained by site of research
3. costs according to transformative agreements; For these agreements, both the costs incurred by the organisation as a result of its participation in the FinELib consortium and the costs of agreements between the organisation and scientific publishers can be taken into account.

Justified layout and editing costs related to the preparation of scientific publications may be financed as research costs for the research project if they are associated with the project’s research or action plan.