Are you funded by any of the following charities or by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding organisations below?
UKRI is made up of:
These organisations require researchers, as a condition of the funding grant, to publish their work open access.This can be achieved via the green open access route by archiving your Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in Discovery or via the gold route where an APC is paid and the work is released by the publisher immediately into the public sphere with a CC-BY license.
UKRI is one of nine delivery partners for the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), a £1.5 billion fund announced by the UK government to support research that addresses the challenges of low and middle income countries (LMIC). Find out more about the University of Dundee's involvement with the GCRF in the One Dundee blog post, Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Pump-Priming Awards.
Did you know, as a condition of your grant, you are also required by some funders to archive a copy of your AAM or the final published version of the work (if published gold open access) in PubMed Central and/or Europe PMC?
Some publishers offer a manuscript deposit service to researchers to archive their work in PubMed Central to comply with funder open access requirements but this must be selected at submission or acceptance. Otherwise you will need to archive your AAM manually via EuropePMC Plus.
Anything submitted to PubMed is mirrored to Europe PMC and vice versa, there is no need to deposit the paper twice.
Do you have any questions about funder compliance?
Do you require more information about Creative Commons licenses?
Does the publisher's embargo differ to your funder's embargo?
Understanding your responsibilities as a grant holder is crucial. If funder compliance is not met any future grant applications could be affected. We can help you with this. Email: Discovery@dundee.ac.uk
Need help funding gold open access?
The Charities Open Access Fund (COAF) which consisted of six UK charities disbanded at the end of September 2020. As a result the joint COAF block grant for open access charges is no longer available and each charity has it's own process for paying open access charges. The charities have also updated their open access polices in line with this change.
We manage a small institutional fund and have access to block grants for:
These funds are used to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs) which allows your work to be made gold open access and makes the research immediately available for anyone to read. The block grants can only be used if your funder is listed above.
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Email Discovery@dundee.ac.uk for more details.
We manage a small institutional fund which can be used to fund research published in fully open access journals.
If you are the corresponding author and affiliated to the University of Dundee you can publish via the gold route of open access using the Read and Publish Agreements at the University of Dundee.
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