Access to scientific literature and resources
With effect of 1 January 2022, EMBL is introducing the EMBL Open Science Policy.
Researchers with an EMBL affiliation and publishing in a peer-reviewed journal are obliged to make the article available in Europe PMC no later than six months after official publication. Where EMBL pays the article processing charges (APCs) using CC-BY is obligatory.
Most publishers will deposit to Europe PMC a copy of the manuscript on behalf of the author; such information can be found on the publisher’s site and/or on Europe PMC’s Journal List tool (under Participation Level).
If such a deposition service is not offered by the publisher, the author needs to self-archive the manuscript to Europe PMC through the Europe PMC Plus tool. User guides can be found on the EuropePMC Plus User Guide page; the guide specific to the submission process can be found here.
When the Gold Open Access route (payment of Article Processing Charges) is selected, the paper must be made available on Europe PMC immediately.
During the Grant Linking step and if your research has not been funded by a Europe PMC funder -for a list check here– use the dummy grant code EMBL001.
OSIM is happy to help with the submission of manuscripts on Europe PMC and can be contacted for assistance.
EMBL will provide funding for APCs commensurate with its contribution to articles and in support of the APC provision made by external funding agencies. The funding is processed by a central budget, for details please visit the instruction page.
Please contact OSIM if you have any questions concerning the policy or for assistance with the Europe PMC submission process. Your feedback is valuable to us, so please do not hesitate to get in touch.