Chile’s national research funder, ANID (Agencia Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo), is in the middle of widening the reach of its Open Access Policy across essentially every instrument it funds. The policy itself — formally the Politica de Acceso Abierto a la Informacion Cientifica y Datos de Investigacion Financiada con Fondos Publicos de ANID — was approved via exempt resolution and took effect in 2022, following a public consultation process. What’s changed is the scope: through 2026, ANID has been folding the mandate into all of its instruments that produce scientific results, rather than leaving it as a policy that applies unevenly across programme lines, and it has been building out the repository and service infrastructure — including a service ANID calls EspacioCiencia — that grantees and their institutions actually deposit into.
For research administrators working with Chilean grantees, or for institutions elsewhere tracking how national funders in Latin America are converging on open-access mandates, here is what the policy actually requires, what’s still evolving, and where the primary documentation lives.
What the policy requires
ANID’s policy applies to research funded wholly or partly with ANID public funds and covers two related but distinct obligations:
- Open access to publications. A machine-readable electronic copy of the Accepted Manuscript (the peer-reviewed, post-refereeing version, sometimes called the postprint) must be deposited in an institutional or thematic repository, or in ANID’s own repository infrastructure, after any embargo period. Deposit is required regardless of where the article is ultimately published — the mandate is repository-based (a "green" open-access route) rather than a requirement to publish gold open access in a particular venue.
- Open access to research data. The policy’s scope extends to research data generated with ANID funding, not just to the resulting publications — positioning it alongside the wider international shift toward FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data practices, though the operational detail of the data-sharing obligation (formats, timelines, exceptions) sits in supporting guidance rather than the headline policy document itself.
Embargo periods
The policy does not impose a single fixed embargo window. Instead, deposit of the Accepted Manuscript happens after the embargo period set by the journal or publisher under the applicable copyright/IP arrangement, with reporting based on this policy indicating those publisher-set embargoes commonly fall somewhere in a roughly six-to-24-month range depending on the venue and discipline. Administrators should treat the specific embargo as something to confirm per-journal via the publisher’s own self-archiving/green-OA terms (most publishers state this explicitly in their author agreements or via a service like Sherpa Romeo), rather than assuming a fixed period applies across all ANID-funded output.
Where deposit happens: institutional repositories and EspacioCiencia
Deposit can go into a researcher’s institutional repository, a recognised thematic repository, or ANID’s own repository infrastructure. Chile’s national access infrastructure effort — coordinated in part through CINCEL (Acceso a la Informacion Cientifica Electronica) — sits alongside this as the layer that aggregates and provides access to the country’s scientific output. As part of the 2026 push, ANID has been rolling out EspacioCiencia, a service intended to give researchers and institutions without their own mature repository infrastructure a route to compliant deposit. This matters practically: Chile’s university sector varies widely in how developed individual institutional repositories are, and a national fallback service closes a real compliance gap for smaller or less-resourced institutions.
InES Ciencia Abierta: funding the capacity to comply
ANID pairs the open-access mandate with a capacity-building funding line, InES Ciencia Abierta (part of the broader InES — Instalacion en la Estrategia de Ciencia Abierta — family of institutional-strengthening grants). These grants fund Chilean institutions to build the actual infrastructure and staff capability — repository platforms, data-curation skills, open-science training — needed to meet the policy’s requirements, rather than leaving institutions to absorb the compliance burden unfunded. Reporting on ANID’s 2026 activity indicates a further competitive renewal round for InES Ciencia Abierta funding is part of this year’s open-science push, extending or refreshing support to institutions that received earlier rounds.
Why this matters beyond Chile
ANID’s approach — a green, repository-based mandate for publications; an explicit (if still-developing) extension to research data; and dedicated capacity-building funding rather than an unfunded compliance mandate — tracks a pattern visible across several national funders in the region and globally: pairing an open-access requirement with the infrastructure money to actually meet it. For CASRAI’s audience of research administrators, the practical takeaway for 2026 is that any Chilean-funded collaboration should be checked against the policy’s current instrument-by-instrument rollout rather than assumed to be either fully in scope or exempt by default, given the policy is still in the process of being extended across ANID’s full portfolio.
Sourcing note
This overview is based on ANID’s public open-access site (acceso-abierto.anid.cl) and its published policy documentation, cross-checked via secondary reporting; some specifics — including the precise resolution date and the fine-grained embargo terms for every instrument — are best confirmed directly against ANID’s own current documentation before relying on them for a specific compliance decision, since policy implementation details are actively evolving through 2026.
