This guideline describes the strategy of THRILL to ensure that the project complies with directions of the European Commission as far as the dissemination of data and information acquired within the project.

Disclaimer

Any publication or presentation resulting from THRILL must include the following disclaimer to acknowledge EC support:
“Funded by the European Union under HE-GA  101095207 THRILL. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. The European Union cannot be held responsible for them.”

Open Access to Publications

Whenever possible, THRILL scientists are obliged to provide open access to publications resulting from their research carried out in the context of THRILL.

What is Open Access?

Open Access means free online access to research literature, mainly to publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, without copyright restrictions imposed by publishers.

Why Open Access?

Any kind of research is based on previous work and, therefore, depends on the availability of scientific knowledge, information and data created by this work. Access to the output of research is, therefore, essential for science and for progress in society in general.

How to provide Open Access?

‘Gold’ open access: Authors publish in open access journals that provide open access to all articles, usually on the publisher’s website. The authors remain the owner of the publication rights. Usually, the license will follow the Creative Commons model: CC BY 4.0.

‘Green’ open access: Authors publish in any journal and then self-archive a version of the article (e.g. preprint) for free use in an institutional or other open access repository or on an open access website.

Hybrid open access: Authors publish in subscription journals that provide open access for individual articles when the author(s) pay(s) an open access publishing fee.

THRILL strategy for Open Access

The favoured open access route within THRILL publications should be ‘gold’ open access, where the authors retain the copyright of their work (CC BY 4.0).

Please, check your rights for reusing your paper before publishing! For guidance, see www.openaire.eu/research-data-and-legal-issues.

In the case of exceptional results meriting inclusion in very high impact publications without the option of open access, then open access (green open access) will be ensured by archival of the peer-reviewed preprints in an online repository, either in partner institutional archives or in disciplinary archives as Zenodo or arXiv. The same repositories will be used to archive gold open access papers. Authors have to provide proper justification for choosing publication routes in hybrid open access journals.

THRILL budgeted enough money to cover the APC (Article Processing Charges) for “gold” Open Access.

Open Access to Research Data

The data resulting from the project needs to respect the FAIR data approach as broadly as possible according to the EU’s open science policy, while at the same time taking into account intellectual property rights issues of the participating industrial partners in order to ensure potential commercial exploitation of the results. More information can be found in the Data Management Plan.

Open Access links

Open Research Europe, an open access publishing platform for the publication of research stemming from Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and/or Euratom funding across all subject areas. The platform allows beneficiaries to comply with the open access terms of their funding and offers researchers a publishing venue to share their results and insights rapidly and facilitate open, constructive research discussion.
Sherpa/Romeo, information on publisher copyright policies and self-archiving
OpenAIRE webpage (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe; provides, e.g., model letters/amendments to publishing agreements)
OpenAIRE: Open Science in Horizon Europe Proposals
OpenAIRE: Open Science Requirements in Horizon Europe in Practice
Webinar on ‘Horizon Europe Open Science requirements in Practice’ (slides and recording regularly updated)