Our Block Grant allocation for April 2023 - March 2024 is now in effect. Authors in receipt of UKRI funding (this covers UK Research Councils, Innovate UK and Research England) who are submitting journal articles on or after 1st April 2023 can potentially make use of this fund.
Authors: The author must have received UKRI funding (from any UKRI Research Council, Research England or Innovate UK). This funding, including a specific grant code, must be acknowledged by the paper..
Publication Types: The fund will support the publishing of peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers.
Licence: The publisher must permit a CC BY licence to be applied to the final published version.
Costs: Funds from the Block Grant will cover the Open Access costs often called Article Processing Charges (or APCs) with any associated VAT or administration fees. It will not cover any further costs, such as submission costs, excess page charges or colour charges.
We are now accepting applications for Open Access funding for authors in receipt of UKRI funding (this covers UK Research Councils, Innovate UK and Research England) who will be publishing a book, edited collection or book chapter after 1st January 2024.
The application for funding will have two stages:
Stage 1: The researcher will register their publication with UKRI via the Research and Scholarly Publications team. This will confirm eligibility for the fund.
Stage 2: Once the publication has been published Open Access, evidence is supplied to UKRI who will then release the funds for the BPC/CPC (Book/Chapter Processing Charge).
Authors: The author must have received UKRI funding (from any UKRI Research Council, Research England or Innovate UK). This funding, including a specific grant code, must be acknowledged in the publication.
Publication Types: The fund will support Book, Edited Collections and Book Chapters. It will not support delayed Open Access (i.e. paying to make the work Open Access after it has already been published).
Licence: The publisher must permit a CC BY licence to be applied to the final published version.
Costs: Applications for funding cannot exceed the following caps:
Entire monographs/ edited collections |
£10,000 (including VAT) |
Book Chapters |
£1,000 (including VAT) |
Costs for third party materials can be requested in research grant applications. However, it will be permitted to claim up to £2,000 via the fund, but within the above maximum limits.
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