{OA Policy implementation: Chemical Sciences

Ljilja Ristic MScChem PGLIS MCLIPPhysical Sciences Consultant & Subject Librarian, RSLFebruary 2016

HEFCE Open Access Research Policy

Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework (HEFCE 2014/07, updated July 2015)

Open access in the next Research Excellence Framework: policy adjustments and qualifications (CL 20/2015)

Deposited material should be discoverable, and free to read and download, for anyone with an internet connection. 

HEFCE OA in the next REF

To be eligible for submission to the next REF: Authors need to submit peer-reviewed

manuscript in institutional or subject repository (final peer reviewed text)

Within 3 months of being accepted for publication

The requirement applies to journal articles and conference proceedings (with an International Standard Serial Number)

Articles published from 1 April 2016

REF requirements

EPSRC/RCUK funded research output - articles and conference papers should be made available in full

‘gold route’ – immediate access on publication (include APC)

‘green route’ – deposit final accepted manuscript in institutional repository – access to full version no later than 6 months from publication (subject to publisher permissions - may include journal embargo period)

EPSRC OA Policy

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Publically-funded research data to be available for public scrutiny. Nine Expectations:

Researchers and research students to have general awareness of the policy

Published research papers should include a short statement describing how supporting research data may be accessed (consistent with RCUK OA Policy)

Research organisation to maintain metadata Researchers and research students funded by EPSRC to

comply with University policy Structured metadata to be made freely available on the

Internet Where access to the data restricted to give reason and

conditions Research organisation to retain research data for 10

years. Effective data curation is provided Adequate resources are available for curation

EPSRC on research data

ORA data

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BBSRC revised OA policy - May 2013Researchers in receipt of funding must comply:

with RCUK Open Access Policy make your research available within 6 months deposit articles in Europe PMC europepmc.org/

digital archive of full-text, peer reviewed research publications

articles automatically added by publishers (‘gold route’)

self-archiving http://plus.eruopepmc.org/ (green route)

Publication costs no longer included in grants BBSRC OA Requirements

Open Access Guidelines for researchers funded by the ERC – revised Dec 2014

Electronic copy of any research article, monograph or other publication to be deposited in a suitable repository

No later than 6 months after the official publication

ERC funded researchers to use discipline specific repositories (Life Science – Europe PMC, Physical Sciences and Engineering - arXiv), general repositories OR institutional repository

No binding commitment, but encouragement for researchers to share data in a responsible way.

Funding for publication to be included in grant application

Horizon2020, FP7 and ERC

SHERPA Romeo and SHERPA FACThttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.phphttp://www.sherpa.ac.uk/fact/

Find funder requirements and journal OA Policies ‘Green route’ and full-text embargo

period ‘Gold route’ and paying APC

Publishing and OA Policies

ORCID at Oxford http://ox.libguides.com/orcid

Register for an ORCID – unique researcher identifier http://ox.libguides.com/orcid

Associate your ORCID ID with Oxford

Wellcome Trust requires ORCIDs in grant applications (since August 2015)

Royal Society mandating the use of ORCID IDs when submitting articles

ORCID at Oxford