The Tri-Agencies are federal granting agencies that promote and support research, research training and innovation within Canada. The Tri-Agencies are:
Their Open Access policy is designed to improve access to the results of Agency-funded research, and to increase the dissemination and exchange of research results. Recipients of these grants are required to ensure that any peer-reviewed journal publications arising from Agency-supported research are freely accessible within a year of publication. To do this, grant recipients can either add the final, peer-reviewed manuscript to an institutional or disciplinary repository that will make the manuscript freely accessible within a year of publication; or recipients can publish in a journal that offers immediate open access or that offers open access on its website within a year. The Tri-Agencies strongly encourage recipients to add their manuscripts to an open access online repository immediately upon publication.
For more information, read the entire Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications or browse their Frequently Asked Questions page.
The following list is from Mount Allison Libraries Open Access Guide. These considerations can be used to evaluate both OA and non-OA journals.
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