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European Research Council (ERC)
"ERC Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access"-2007. According to its policies the ERC requires all peer-reviewed articles and other peer-reviewed scientific publications resulting from research it has funded to be deposited in an appropriate institutional or subject repository and be openly accessible at the latest six months after the first publication. Further, ERC considers the immediate deposit of primary scientific data in appropriate databases very significant, and in no case should such depositions exceed six months after publication.

FP7 Pilot
An initiative aimed at strengthening Open Access within the 7th Framework Programme for Research. 20% of research projects to be carried out with 7th FP funding are obliged to publish research papers in Open Access journals or deposit it in Open Access repositories within reasonable time, which is explicitly designated in the project contracts. FP7 Pilots concerns the following research domains: Energy, Environment, Health, ICT, Science and Society, Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Infrastructures

OpenAIRE
OpenAIRE is a three-year project funded by the 7th FP in order to develop the infrastructure and help researchers funded by the FP7 to meet the demands on Open Access set forth by the FP7 Pilot. An infrastructure will be developed for the networks of repositories in which the publications will be deposited. Further the possibility will be explored for the development of services to manage research data.