WHO Policy on Open Access
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WHO Policy on Open Access
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WHO’s open access policy requires WHO‑authored and WHO‑funded journal articles to be published open access from 1 January 2021, preferably in journals indexed in DOAJ and with agreements to deposit the version of record in PubMed Central and Europe PMC. WHO does not support APCs for hybrid journals except in transitional cases; accepted manuscripts must be deposited with no embargo and licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO (WHO‑authored) or CC BY 4.0 (WHO‑funded). WHO publications since November 2016 are released under CC BY‑NC‑SA 3.0 IGO, and the policy includes explicit expectations for data availability statements and deposition of datasets with persistent identifiers. The page links to WHO journals indexed in DOAJ and to IRIS, WHO’s publication repository.
