Editing REF CC (section)

==How the OA Compliance Checker works==
Using the metadata described above, the OA Compliance Checker plugin carries out a number of tests to determine compliance. These tests are carried out whenever the item is changed, so the updated compliance status is immediately reflected.

===Overall compliance===
To be compliant, an item must meet at least one of the following conditions:

*The deposit, discovery and access requirements are met.
*There is a deposit exception.
*There is an access exception and the deposit and discovery requirements are met.
*There is a technical exception.
*There is an 'other' exception.

===Deposit requirements===
To be deposit compliant, all of the following conditions must be met.

*The Date of first compliant deposit must be set (i.e. the item is a compliant deposit).
*The Date of first compliant deposit must be no later than three months after the Date of acceptance. If the Date of acceptance is before 1st April 2018, Date of first compliant deposit must be no later than three months after the Date of first online publication.

===Discovery requirements===
To be discovery compliant, all of the following conditions must be met:

*The item must be in the Live Archive.

===Access requirements===
*To be access compliant, all of the following conditions must be met.

*If no embargo applies, the Date of first compliant Open Access must be less than one month after the Date of first compliant deposit. Otherwise, the Date of first compliant Open Access must be less than one month after the embargo expiry date (Date of first online publication + Embargo length (months).
The Embargo length (months) must not exceed the stated maxima for the target REF panel.

===Other criteria===
All other criteria are determined to be already met or not necessary to explicitly check at the software level.