Funder Deposit Mandates

ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies, is a central registry monitoring the deposit mandates for institutions, funding agencies and, also for theses and dissertations. Here we give the list of funding mandates:

Asia and the Pacific

• Australian Research Council, Australia (mandate)
• National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia (mandate)

Europe and North America

• Agence Nationale de la recherche (ANR) (Humanities and Social Sciences Branch), France
• Arthritis Research UK
• Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK
• Autism Speaks, USA (mandate)
• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK
• British Heart Foundation (BHF) (mandate)
• Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance (CBCRA) (mandate)
• Canadian Cancer Society (CCS)
• Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF)
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (mandate)
• Cancer Research UK
• Chief Scientist Office (Scottish Executive Health) (CSO)
• Congreso de los Diputados, Spain (national mandate)
• Department of Health (UK) (mandate)
• EUR-OCEANS Consortium on Ocean Ecosystem Analysis, Europe
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK
• Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK (mandate)
• European Commission - 2 (EC), Europe
• European Research Council (ERC), Europe
• Fonds de la recherche en sante Quebec (FRSQ), Canada (mandate)
• Fonds zur Foerderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF), Austria (mandate)
• Government of the Principality of Asturias, Spain 
• Health Research Board (Ireland) (HRB)
• Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), USA (mandate)
• Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), Hungary   
• Institute of Education Sciences, USA
• International Development Reseach Centre (IDRC), Canada
• Irish Higher Education Authority (HEA) (mandate)
• Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) (mandate)
• JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), UK
• Madrid Autonomous Community of Spain (CM) (mandate)
• Medical Research Council (MRC)
• Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR), Canada (mandate)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA (mandate)
• National Research Council (NRC) Canada
• Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC)
• Norwegian Research Council
• Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Canada 
• Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Blgium
• Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
• Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) (20 Oct 2006) UK
• Spanish General State Administration
• Swedish Research Council Formas
• Swedish Research Council Vetenskapradet
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
• Telethon Italy
• The Dunhill Medical Trust, UK (mandate)
• Wellcome Trust, UK (mandate)

A detailed analytical list of Open Access funding mandates is available at BioMed Central website.