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Research Services

We can advise and support you on all these issues. In the unlikely event we are unable to answer your query we will direct you to someone in the University who can.

Information for funded researchers (grant holders)

Are you funded by any of the following charities or by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding organisations below? 

  • Blood Cancer UK
  • British Heart Foundation
  • Cancer Research UK
  • Parkinson's UK
  • Versus Arthritis
  • Wellcome Trust

UKRI is made up of:

  • Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC)
  • Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
  • Innovate UK
  • Medical Research Council (MRC)
  • Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
  • Research England
  • Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

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
 

Funding for open access grant holders

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.

Funded by:

  • Versus Arthritis - request support for open access by logging into Grant Tracker. Applicants must check with their institution and other applicable parties for open access funding support prior to requesting funding.
  • Blood Cancer UK - Funds for open access will be paid as part of grant funds or on a case by case basis subject to approval.
  • Parkinson's UK - Funds for open access from additional allowable costs through grant applications and directly from Parkinson’s UK

Email Discovery@dundee.ac.uk for more details.

Require funding for open access but don't have a grant?

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.

Sherpa Services

SHERPA Services help authors and institutions by providing a suite of tools designed to inform about open access publication and funder compliance.

  • SHERPA FACT - Use Sherpa Fact to ensure your journal is compliant with your funder's open access policy.
  • SHERPA RoMEO - Use this to find individual journal policies on OA publishing and archiving.
  • SHERPA Juliet - Sherpa Juliet details individual funders' conditions for open access.

 

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Submitting an article for publication? Use this checklist.

Am I funded?

  • Yes.
  • Who is your funder? Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, UKRI, other?
  • What are your funders open access (OA) requirements?

Submitting to journal

  • Make sure you have acknowledged your funder and grant number on the paper as part of your funder compliance requirements.
  • Upon acceptance, email Discovery@dundee.ac.uk with your acceptance email from your publisher and a copy of your Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM).
  • Research Services will create a record in Pure and make sure any REF OA and funder requirements are met within Discovery.
  • REF requirements met.

Publishing gold OA?

  • Email Discovery@dundee.ac.uk for help paying for gold OA.
  • If funded, for example by Wellcome Trust, UKRI etc. there are block grants available to pay for OA, subject to requirements.
  • Funders usually require a CC-BY license to be selected during the submission process.
  • Funder require archiving in Pub Med and / or Europe PMC?
  • If your publisher has a manuscript deposition service make sure you check this option/ opt into this service during the submission process.
  • If there is no deposit service archive your Author Accepted Manuscript manually via Europe PMC Plus if you have not published your paper via the gold route of OA.
  • All funder requirements met.

Celebrate your work has been published!

  • If you have published your research gold OA, Research Services will archive a copy of the Final Published Version in the Pure record upon online publication.

Do you use social media?

  • If you would like your work to be promoted, email Discovery and ask us to tweet about your work @UoDOpenResearch.