Funder requirements
What a funder asks of a publication, what Green Technology & Innovation already does about it, and the one or two things that stay yours.
What every funder asks for
Every article in Green Technology & Innovation is open on the day it publishes, under a CC BY licence, with the copyright kept by you and a registered DOI. That is what open access mandates are built from, so for most funders it is the whole of it.
Give us the grant number and the programme in the funding statement and they travel with the article into the Crossref deposit, where a funder looking for their own output can find it.
What is left to you
- Nothing further. Publishing here satisfies the UKRI open access policy in full.
- One step, and it is yours. The accepted manuscript has to be in PubMed Central without embargo, which publishing open access does not do on its own. Submit it through the NIH Manuscript Submission system; we give you the manuscript and its metadata. See the NIH public access policy.
- Two steps, both yours. Deposit a copy in a trusted repository, your institution's or Zenodo, because publication alone is not enough under the grant agreement. And name the grant in the funding statement. See Horizon Europe open science.
- Two steps, and both are ours: registration in DOAJ, and deposit with a long-term preservation programme. See Plan S, and the archiving and preservation policy for where each stands.
Where a funder asks for something else, it is almost always a deposit, and you may always make one: any version, in any repository, with no embargo. See the repository policy.
This policy applies to every journal we publish. Last revised 28 August 2026.