UKRI Open Access Policy

UKRI’s new open access policy will apply to in-scope journal articles and conference papers that acknowledge UKRI funding and are submitted for publication from 1st April 2022. UKRI requires immediate open access to any of its funded outputs, regardless of whether that is achieved through deposit in a repository or published in a journal/conference proceedings. This applies to all researchers who are in receipt of UKRI funding prior to and from 1st April 2022, including any past grant holders where relevant outputs are still being submitted for publication.

Open access within 12 months of publication will also apply to monographs, book chapters and edited collections published from 1st January 2024.

There are 2 routes by which articles can meet the requirements of the policy:

Route 1 (Gold OA):
Publish in an open access journal or publishing platform, with a CC BY licence​. This includes publishing in a journal covered by a UKRI-compliant transitional agreement.  To find out if a journal is in a transitional agreement use the cOAlition S Journal Checker Tool.  If no compliant route is identified, the University has open access publishing agreements with a number of  journals, eligible journals and current ‘read & publish agreement can be found here.

Route 2 (Green OA):
Publish in a subscription journal and deposit the accepted manuscript in Pure with a CC BY licence and with no embargo from the date of first online publication.
To publish using route 2, submitted manuscripts must include the following licensing text:

“This research was funded in whole or in part by [insert funder] [insert grant number].  For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a ‘Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission.”

If your publisher agreement states that you cannot deposit the accepted manuscript, please get in touch with the Open Access team at open-access@bristol.ac.uk.

NB: UKRI will not allow use of the block grant to pay for open access in some of the Nature family of journals.  More information in this link.

The UoB Library Research Support Team have put together some resources to help you in this link Funder Requirements webpage.

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