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Using the University's
open access
publication fund
Stephen Pinfield
Open access (OA) mandates
• RCUK
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AHRC
BBSRC
ESRC
MRC
NERC
STFC (PPARC and CCLRC)
• Charities/independent funders
– British Heart Foundation
– Cancer Research UK
– Wellcome Trust
Routes to open access
• Publish in OA or ‘hybrid’ journal
– OA journal eg PLoS, BioMed Central
– ‘hybrid’ option eg Blackwells, OUP, Springer
– cost US $500-$5000
• Deposit in OA repository (‘self archive’)
– institutional eg Nottingham ePrints
– subject eg PubMed Central
• Publish and deposit
OA charges: sources of funding
• Wellcome
– direct costs
– institution-held funds
– Wellcome-held funds
• Research Councils
– direct costs
– indirect costs…
• Nottingham central fund
Nottingham OA publication fund
• Approved by the Research Committee
• Administered by RIS, contact Ros
Jones
• Designed to fund OA charges (for OA
or hybrid journals) not page charges
• Open to all members of the University
regardless of source of funding for
their research
• Being monitored but not rationed
• So far, little used
• Possibility of institutional prepayments