Editing Open access (section)

==== Research funders ====
{{See also|#Policies and mandates}}
{{Further|Open-access mandate#Instances}}

[[Research funding]] agencies and universities want to ensure that the research they fund and support in various ways has the greatest possible research impact.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DFID Research: DFID's Policy Opens up a World of Global Research |url=http://www.dfid.gov.uk/What-we-do/Research-and-evidence/case-studies/research-case-studies/2012/DFIDs-policy-opens-up-a-world-of-global-research/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103141246/http://www.dfid.gov.uk/What-we-do/Research-and-evidence/case-studies/research-case-studies/2012/DFIDs-policy-opens-up-a-world-of-global-research/ |archive-date=3 January 2013 |website=dfid.gov.uk}}</ref> As a means of achieving this, research funders are beginning to expect open access to the research they support. Many of them (including all UK Research Councils) have already adopted [[open-access mandate]]s, and others are on the way to do so (see [[ROARMAP]]).