What support is available for gold open access fees?

The University provides the following support for gold open access:

1. Through signing up to Transitional Deals. Eligible papers can be published gold open access at no additional cost to the author or the University. 
2. Paying to publish research papers in fully open access journals (where there is no transitional deal available), where the paper acknowledges research support from one of our block grant funders (UKRI, Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK and British Heart Foundation)
3. Paying to publish research papers in fully open access journals (where there is no transitional deal available), where there is no access to any funds to pay gold open access. Rather than using the block grants, the Institutional Fund would be used. 

Please be aware that funds cannot be reserved in advance, and funding decisions are given on a case by case basis once the accepted manuscript has been uploaded Symplectic Elements. It is advisable to do this before you agree to pay a fee. 

Open accessing publishing does not always need the payment of a fee, and green open access is a legitimate route, acknowledged by funders to achieving open access. 

Instead of paying an open access fee, there are some other alternatives:

• Use the University's Self-Archiving Policy to make the accepted manuscript available with a CC BY licence on publication (for submissions after 1/4/23)
• Use rights retention in your submission and make your accepted manuscript openly available with a CC BY licence immediately upon publication in an open access repository (for submissions before 1/4/23)
• Deposit your accepted manuscript in an open access repository, using the publisher's self archiving policy. This is acceptable, so long as your funder does not require immediate open access (for submissions before 1/4/23 and rights retention was not used).