UKRI Open Access Policy: how to comply from 01st April 2022
The new UKRI
Open Access (OA) Policy applies to research articles and conference
proceedings submitted on or after 1st
April 2022, and to longform publications (monographs, book chapters and edited
collections) published on or after 1st
January 2024.
Local advocacy and engagement
The University Library Research Services team manages the UKRI open access block grant (OABG) awarded to the University, and we have been busy in February and March delivering UKRI OA policy college and departmental level briefings, presentations, and Q&A sessions.
All of the slides and recordings from the CSE, CSSAH, and CLS briefings are available to access from our open access hub in Sharepoint.
If you would like us to come and deliver a session in your college, departmental or research group meeting, please do drop us an email. We can tailor it to your requirements (virtual or f2f, length of session etc).
How to comply
From 01st April 2022 all UKRI funded in-scope
peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN must be
made immediately open access. This includes review articles, including those
that have been invited or commissioned.
·
The article must be available immediately on publication (no embargo)
· The article must have a CC-BY license (unless
you have secured special
permission for a CC-BY-ND license from UKRI)
·
The article must include a data
access statement (DAS) explaining how people can access the data your paper
is based on
Routes to publish compliantly
Route 1: Publish open access via a journal or
publishing platform that makes the Version of Record (VoR) immediately
available on its website.
Route 2: Publish closed access in a subscription
journal and deposit the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) or (Version of Record
if permitted by the publisher) into a compliant repository. University of
Leicester researchers should deposit into Figshare Leicester Research Archive
via IRIS as soon as possible after article acceptance. The deposited manuscript
must be made open access immediately on
publication without an embargo period.
In addition, biomedical articles which acknowledge funding
from BBSRC or MRC are required to be archived
in Europe PMC.
Paying for article processing charges from the UKRI open access block grant
You can apply
for funds to have your article processing charge (APC) paid from our UKRI
OA block grant if you are:
a)
Publishing in a fully open access journal or
platform, or
b)
Publishing in a hybrid (subscription) journal
which has been designated as a ‘transformative journal’
****Please note colour and page charges are not an eligible cost for the open access block grant. Further information on UKRI guidance on this can be found in their FAQs.
University of Leicester and transitional agreements
The University of Leicester has signed up to several transitional
agreements with publishers, and in the majority of cases this permits
University of Leicester corresponding authors to publish open access, with no
author-side costs. Publishing in journals covered by these transitional
agreements is compliant with UKRI OA policy.
In Spring/Summer 2022 we plan to deliver a series of transitional agreement drop-in sessions, where we shall answer any questions you may have around a specific publisher agreement and eligible journals.
Use the journal
checker tool to see which publishing options are aligned with UKRI OA
policy. Please note, this tool is still under development, so we recommend that
you contact us first at openaccess@leicester.ac.uk
to check the journal eligibility.