Author question: "I applied for Research Councils UK and the Charity Open Access Fund (COAF) in order to get an open access fund. They asked me the following questions in order to check my eligibility to such funds, but I could not find answers for them in JMIR website. So could you please help me to answer the questions"
1. Publisher will deposit paper in PubMed Central at the time of publication? yes, no, n/a
For most JMIR journals, yes. Please check the homepage of the JMIR journal you are trying to submit to.
If the footer shows the PubMed Central logo, then we are submitting the article within 2 weeks after publication. (If not, then we probably have applied to PMC for that journal but have not heard back yet).
2. Publisher will deposit paper in PubMed Central within 6 months of publication
For most JMIR journals, yes. Please check the homepage of the JMIR journal you are trying to submit to.
If the footer shows the PubMed Central logo, then we are submitting the article within 2 weeks after publication. (If not, then we probably have applied to PMC for that journal but have not heard back yet).
3. Immediate free access from the publisher's website upon publication
Yes, that's what "open access" means. All JMIR journals are "gold open access", i.e. the full text is available free of charge.
4. Funder mentioned in acknowledgement section
It is up to the author to acknowledge the funder in the acknowledgement section of an article. The publisher is happy to publish the acknowledgement, but the onus is on the author to include this in the manuscript.
5. Information regarding how to access additional data included where appropriate
It is up to the author to make a statement on data availability / accessibility. The publisher is happy to publish this statement, but the onus is on the author to include this in the manuscript. Furthermore, the data journal JMIR Data is happy to publish the data itself.