Green Open Access Journals Policy | Cambridge University Press

"Funders and other institutions are increasingly adopting policies that require research articles funded by them to be deposited and made freely available in institutional or other repositories. We have Green OA policies to allow authors, librarians and others to comply with their obligations to their institutions and funders (see below for more information about this). Green OA applies to all our journal articles, but it is primarily designed to support OA for articles that are otherwise only available by subscription or other payment. For that reason, we are more restrictive in what we allow under Green OA compared with Gold OA: The final, published version of the article cannot be made Green OA (see below). The Green OA version of the article is made available to readers for private research and study only (see also Information for Repositories, below). We do not allow Green OA articles to be made available under Creative Commons licenses. Funder policies vary in which version of an article can be made Green OA. We use the following definitions (adapted from NISO) ... Our Green OA policies are compliant with the article deposition requirements of most major funders worldwide including the US National Institutes of Health, the US National Science Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the UK’s Hefce and Research Councils UK ..."