What happens after I upload my article?

After you uploaded a manuscript and added its details on Symplectic Elements, a ticket is created and comes to the Open Access team's helpdesk. We will deposit the article in Apollo if permitted, and investigate which funder policies apply and what the journal’s copyright policies allow.

Once we have checked your submission we will provide open access compliance and funding advice . If we can use one of our block grants to pay the open access fee we will confirm this and give you instructions for how to have raise an invoice for the article processing charge (if appropriate)

To comply with the REF Open Access policy, we'll also add the manuscript to the Repository if publisher policy allows and we will inform you once this has been deposited.