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- Employment and educational prospects<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Community and social development<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Health care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Most research is funded by public money, and therefore it should be publicly available. Yet, most people do not have access to most research. Open access can change this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This blog post contains information about open access for UKRI-funded researchers. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Photo by Leyre Labarga<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n UKRI\u2019s Open Access policy<\/a>\u00a0published in March 2022 applies to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Journal articles and conference proceedings submitted for publication on or after 1 April 2022<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Monographs, book chapters and edited collections published on or after\u00a01 January 2024<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
UKRI funded articles and conference proceedings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Articles and conference proceedings submitted on or after 1 April 2022 must be Open Access\u00a0immediately upon publication<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- You can no longer apply an embargo to your Author Accepted Manuscripts deposited in Research Space Repository.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Add this UKRI statement to your author accepted manuscript (AAM) before submission: ‘For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence (where permitted by UKRI, an Open Government Licence or CC BY ND public copyright licence may be used instead) to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising<\/em>‘. This applies to all AAMs and is your \u2018safety net\u2019, it ensures that your article will comply.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- You must apply a CC BY licence to your article (with CC BY ND allowed in some exceptional cases)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- You must create a Data Access Statement, even where there are no data associated with the article or the data are inaccessible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- MRC and BBSRC biomedical research articles that acknowledge this funding will be archived in Europe PubMed Central.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Articles can include third-party materials (such as images, photographs or maps) that are subject to a more restrictive licence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Image by Leni_und_Tom from Pixabay <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n UKRI funded books, book chapters and edited collections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Books, chapters or edited collections published on or after 1 January 2024 must be\u00a0published<\/strong>\u00a0Open Access or available in a repository (e.g. Research Space) within 12 months of publication.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- They can be published as an Open Access item or be deposited as an Author Accepted Manuscript in\u00a0Research Space Repository<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- They must use a CC BY licence that allows the reader to search for and reuse content, subject to proper attribution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- They should include images, illustrations, tables, photographs, diagrams, maps and other supporting content where possible, but these third-party materials are allowed to be made available under a more restrictive licence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Exceptions will be permitted, for example if there are problems related to obtaining permission for re-use of third party material, or if an appropriate publisher is unable to offer an Open Access option that complies with UKRI\u2019s policy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Textbooks, scholarly editions, exhibition catalogues, trade books and fictional works are excluded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Photo by Olga Vilkha \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n What UKRI funded researchers need to do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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- You must keep a digital copy of the Author Accepted Manuscript version of your work and deposit it in Research Space Repository upon acceptance. Contact repository@canterbury.ac.uk <\/a>and we’ll help you assign the 12 month embargo. This provides you with a \u201csafety net\u201d of free Open Access that is sufficient to meet the requirements. See point 16 of the UKRI policy<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- From 2024 onwards a central grant will be available. Page 5 of the\u202fUKRI policy<\/a>\u202fstates: “UKRI will provide an Open Access Block Grant\u202fto support compliance with this policy for both research articles and in-scope longform publications”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- You must apply a CC BY licence to your work (with CC BY ND allowed in some exceptional cases)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Be aware of the need to make your work openly available online when dealing with material for which you don’t own the copyright. This checklist about use of third party copyright material<\/a>\u202fthat University of Kent produced for postgraduates may be helpful.\u202f When seeking permission to use third party copyright material, state that it will be available online.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Bear in mind that some UKRI block grant funding will be available to publish Open Access online. Consider the opportunities this may offer to link to inter-active content, images and audio visual material and address this in your dissemination plan.\u202f<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Use this\u00a0list of resources to help you choose a quality Open Access publisher<\/a>\u00a0and this\u202fOpen Access books\u202ftoolkit\u202f<\/a>\u202fwhich explains more about the process of publishing a book Open Access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- From 2024 onwards a central grant will be available. Page 5 of the\u202fUKRI policy<\/a>\u202fstates: “UKRI will provide an Open Access Block Grant\u202fto support compliance with this policy for both research articles and in-scope longform publications”<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Monographs, book chapters and edited collections published on or after\u00a01 January 2024<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Journal articles and conference proceedings submitted for publication on or after 1 April 2022<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
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