LibGuides: Open Access: IFPRI Fund and other Funder Policies

Funding Support from CPA - IFPRI Staff Only

IFPRI only finances Open Access fees when there is at least one IFPRI-related author and there is not a current funder that automatically funds Open Access fees.

IFPRI staff can learn more about IFPRI Funding support here.

Links to further information

BMGF support to OA

This policy is valid through December 31, 2024

Starting January 1st, the foundation renewed its Open Access Policy in alignment with cOAlition S and discontinued paying publishing fees to journals for articles submitted in 2021 that did not comply with the transformative agreement. Only publication fees for Gold OA journals or journals committed to OA transformation will be paid. The advantage of choosing gold open access is the articles are freely available on publishers’ websites with a proper license (Creative Commons licenses) rather than standard copyright. All Funded Research including articles accepted for publication shall also be available immediately at publication, without any embargo period. See all policy elements here and see the Grantee Guide for more information on how to navigate the publishing process.

The foundation is tax exempt, but as a private foundation, they are not exempt from sales tax.

List of all Plan S compliant transformative journals

Please visit the BMGF Open Access Policy FAQs, the Journal Checker Tool and the Grantee Guide for more information.

Starting in 2025, Gates Foundation will no longer support Open Access fees and is instead encouraging the use of preprint publishing, including on their owned server, Verixiv. More information can be found on the F1000 blog and the Gates Foundation blog.

Gates Open Access Policy

Policy Refresh Overview

Policy One Pager

Open Access - UK Co-Authors

Elsevier
UKRI, Wellcome and partners of the Charity Open Access Fund all require journal articles that result from their funded research to be made open access. The Higher Education Funding Bodies of the UK also require that journal articles meet accessibility requirements in order to be eligible for submission to the Research Excellence Framework (REF).
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Jisc and OUP agreed a Read and Publish deal for 2017-2019. For 2020 OUP and Jisc have agreed a read-only deal, however some institutions still have funds available for authors to use for open access publication. Eligible authors from participating institutions in the UK can request use of their institution’s funds to pay the Open Access charge when arranging payment in OUP’s online licencing and payment system.
Sage
SAGE has an agreement with Jisc for subscribing Jisc institution members to cover open access article processing charges (APCs) for affiliated corresponding authors. The UK Jisc Agreement, open to all UK institutions wo are members of the consortium, will run between 2020 and 2022 and includes back dating to the 1st January. UK member institutions can opt-in to this agreement via the Jisc ordering website. Please contact the open access team at your university if you are unsure if your institution is participating in the agreement.
Springer
If you’re affiliated with a participating institution, the UK Read and Publish (Springer Compact) agreement means you can publish your article open access - at no cost to you - in more than 1,850 Springer hybrid journals. In addition, you can enjoy full access to all Springer subscription journal content. Established by Jisc, this agreement will run through 31 December 2021.
Wiley
Beginning 2 March 2020, authors affiliated with UK institutions participating in Wiley’s Jisc agreement may publish primary research and review articles in any of Wiley’s fully gold Open Access or Wiley’s hybrid (subscription), OnlineOpen journals with no further open access costs* to the author.