UKRI Open Access Policy update:

In scope research outputs that acknowledge funding from UKRI Research Councils must be made OA, either via the Green route or the Gold route.  From 1st April 2022, this includes original research and review articles submitted to journals, publishing platforms, and conference proceedings with an ISSN.  From 1st January 2024, this includes published long-form research outputs (books, edited collections, book chapters).

Typical compliance criteria, for both the Green and Gold routes, are immediate OA with a CC-BY licence.  For original research and review articles complying via the Green route, a licencing statement is also required in the acknowledgements section of the submitted manuscript, which must be retained on the peer-reviewed accepted manuscript.  For long-form research outputs complying via the Green route, a maximum embargo of 12 months is allowed.

REF Open Access Policy update:

Research England are due to launch the consultation for the next REF OA Policy by 20th March 2024.  Until the new OA policy for REF 2029 is published, the compliance criteria for the existing REF 2021 OA Policy remains.  

For the Green route, this involves depositing the peer-reviewed accepted manuscript into Pure within the deadline of 3 months from the acceptance date (and no later than 3 months from the date of first publication of the version of record); and also ensuring maximum embargoes for subject area are not exceeded (12 months for Main Panels A & B; 24 months for Main Panels C & D).  Articles published via the Gold route comply with the policy.

Open Access publishing update:

The University’s preferred route for OA compliance is the Green route, as this is cost-free for UoP researchers.  Alternatively, for original research and review articles these can be made Gold OA at no further cost to UoP corresponding authors if they publish in a journal that is eligible in one of our institutional OA agreements with publishers.  Please see the list of current OA agreements here, which is updated annually.

For more information on Open Access please visit the Support for Researchers section of the Library website.