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UPDATE: from 1 July 2021 the Wiley Read and Publish agreement will be limited to UKRI, Wellcome Trust and former COAF funded research articles only. This is due to an article cap and temporary restrictions on the Wiley Open Access Accounts put in place by Jisc and Wiley. The University of Leicester is a participating Jisc  member institution of this transitional open access agreement and we will provide further updates if there is any change in eligibility criteria later in the year. This current restriction will last until 01st January 2022 , when the 2022 funds will be made available. So which Leicester authors are eligible from 01st July 2021? Corresponding authors affiliated with the University of Leicester who are funded by UKRI, Wellcome, British Heart Foundation, and Cancer Research UK are eligible. They are able to  publish their research and review articles immediately as open access (OA) in over 1,400 hybrid open access journals and  230+ fully o...

By Grant Denkinson, open access lead in Library Research Services.  Here, we are looking at research publications in journals and published conference proceedings. First: Open Access changes nothing about the usual processes of editing and peer review. You will be choosing the best journal for your work as usual and need to comply with Open Access requirements for HEFCE REF and the requirements of any funders. Our university policy fits with the REF policy. There are two main routes to publishing OA: Green and Gold . Some journals offer the Green route only. Some are Gold only. Some are hybrid and you may have a choice whether to choose Open Access via either the Green or the Gold route. We use SHERPA/RoMEO https://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php to see what the options are for most journals. Green is the traditional publishing model and has no costs to you. All that you need to do additionally is to go to IRIS , create a simple manual record if...