Yes. Many research funders have signed up to cOAlition S, and require immediate open access to the outputs of research they have funded.
Our policy is intended to allow researchers to be able to publish in the journal of their choice, whilst retaining sufficient rights in their accepted manuscripts to be able to share these and meet the open access requirements of their funder.
This should also ensure authors can comply with the forthcoming open access requirements for the next national research assessment following REF 2021.
