Category Archives: Pure and Open Access

OpenAccess: Journal Checker Tool

The University has signed up to a number of ‘Read and Publish‘ deals to allow our authors to publish their work in a Gold Open Access format. The Open Access team would like to make you aware of a new tool which makes it easy to check whether a given journal is included in one of the University’s agreements.  This will make life simpler for authors and enable them to establish quickly and easily whether or not a journal is covered by a Read and Publish deal, saving them from having to look up the information for individual publisher’s agreements.

  • Use your UoB email address when submitting
  • Enter the name of your chosen journal to see at a glance if it is included in a Read and Publish agreement.
  • If the journal asks you what licence to use, please select CC-BY
  • If your journal does not show up in this list, it may be a Gold Only journal.
  • Search for Gold Only journals in DOAJ.  The Library has funding available to pay for such articles for UKRI, Wellcome Trust, CRUK and BHF funded authors.
  • For support, contact the Library at lib-research-support@bristol.ac.uk
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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.

See also

Your Outputs on Pure

Pure is the University’s research information system and repository of scholarly works. Explore Bristol Research (EBR) is the Pure-driven website and the University’s public catalogue of research.

Add your back catalogue
Some guidance to simplify the process of adding papers to Pure, likely to be particularly helpful to new people.
Watch video:  Importing to Pure from arXiv

How to make your work open access in Pure?
A step by step guide to making your work Open Access by adding your Author’s Accepted Manuscript to Pure.
Watch video: How to Make Your Work Open Access in Pure

How to make your research outputs REF compliant
All journal articles and conference proceedings (with an ISSN) to be submitted to the next REF must be deposited in a repository within three months of acceptance.  More about how to make your research outputs REF compliant in this link.

Help and support
Pure and EBR Support email: pure-support@bristol.ac.uk