Australia: Arthur Sale's Green Open Access Mandate Recommendations

1. Only publications whose full text is lodged in an institutional repository, and is either open access or scheduled to be automatically made open access in compliance with the next requirement, will be eligible to be cited in support of ERA submissions after 1 January 2016 

2. Books and book chapters, and research outputs other than journal and conference artices, are exempt from the open access requirement, but not the lodgement requirement. Journal and conference articles must be made open access as soon as possible, but no later than six months after publication for biological and medical articles, one year for other sciences, and two years for the humanities and fine arts. Either the final draft (NISO term: AM or Accepted Manuscript) or the published form (NISO term: VoR or Version of Record) is acceptable. 

3. If an article is published with open access, then a repository entry with full metadata and a link to the open access version of the full text is acceptable in meeting the requirement. A copy of the full-text is not required. 

4. The ARC will move to eliminating HERDC metadata collection, and ERA RODA full text collection, from 1 January 2016, instead harvesting the data direct from university repositories. 

5. Universities are responsible for ensuring compliance. Non-compliance may cause omission from the ERA.