Researchers are now expected to comply with an increasing number of open access policies. View summary details of the key policies affecting Durham University researchers. Links to the full policies are provided which you are strongly advised to read if you receive funding from the particular research body.
Depositing your final accepted manuscript in DRO as soon as possible after its acceptance will enable you to comply with all these policies other than the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council (MRC). Wellcome Trust require deposit in PubMed Central (PMC) and Europe PMC.The MRC require deposit in Europe PMC.
Applies to journal articles and conference papers published since January 2013. Applies to academic staff and Postgraduate Research students, if they publish in scholarly peer-reviewed publications.
View the full Durham University Open Access policy.
The RCUK Open Access Policy came into force on April 1st 2013. This policy applies to any peer-reviewed journal article or conference proceedings that:
The applicable research paper must:
See our dedicated LibGuide or more information on the Policy and how to apply for funding from the Block Grant to pay for open access costs.
Applies to journal articles arising from grants awarded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 funding programmes.
Making other publication formats available open access is strongly recommended.
View the Horizon 2020 Open access policy.
Applies to all original, peer-reviewed research publications that have been supported - in whole or in part - by Wellcome, including book chapters and monographs. This policy will be applicable for articles submitted for publication up to 31 December. From 1st January there will be a new policy.
View the Wellcome Open access policy.
There will be 3 routes to compliance:
Route 1 | Route 2 | Route 3 |
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Publish in a fully Open Access journal or on an Open Access platform (gold open access). | Publish in a subscription journal and make your Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) open available in an OA repository (green open access). | Publish Open Access in a subscription journal which forms part of a transformative agreement (gold open access). |
Wellcome WILL fund | Wellcome WILL NOT fund. | Wellcome will CONTRIBUTE at the institutional level. |
Wellcome's preferrred routes are 1 or 3 which ensures the final published version is OA at time of publication. Please see their webpage for detailed information on the routes.
There will be a journal checker tool available soon (coming Autumn 2020) which Wellcome require you to use to check your preferred journal complies with the policy.
A Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) public copyright licence must be applied to all journal articles or author accepted manuscript or you must complete an exception form to publish under a Creative Commons No-derivatives licence (CC BY-ND). More information about this is on the Wellcome webpages.
Details of other research funders' open access policies can be found in SHERPA Juliet or OpenDOAR. You can also ask the DRO Team to check the OA options for a specific journal or publication.