RSP - OA

Funder Open Access Grants

NIHR

Authors in receipt of NIHR funding submitting journal articles or conference papers can potentially apply for Open Access funding. The following policies and requirements are in place for the fund:

Open Access Policy: The publication must be in scope of the NIHR Open Access Policy and have met the policy's criteria. More information about NIHR's Open Access Policy can be found on our LibGuides.

Publication Types: The fund will support the publishing of all peer-reviewed research articles, including reviews not commissioned by publishers and conference papers. 

Licence: The publisher must permit a CC BY licence to be applied to the final published version. NIHR may permit, on a case-by-case basis, the use of a more restrictive Creative Commons Attribution No-derivatives licence (CC BY-ND) for the open access version of a research article. Authors can request a CC BY-ND licence on an NIHR Open Access request form.

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 excess page charges or colour charges.

Other Funders: Where  relevant and appropriate, eligible APC costs should be split with other research funders, in line with the funders' relative contributions to the research described in the publication.

Full details about NIHR's Open Access Funding can be found here. The form to apply can be found here.

Wellcome Trust

Authors in receipt of Wellcome Trust funding submitting journal articles, books or book chapters can potentially apply for Open Access funding. The following policies and requirements are in place for the fund:

Open Access Policy: The publication must be either in scope of the Wellcome's Open Access Policy and have met the policy's criteria OR be a research/study protocol, a systemic review, a scoping review or a meta-analysis authored by Wellcome-funded researchers and published in fully OA journals or platforms. More information about Wellcome Trust's Open Access Policy can be found on our LibGuides.

Publication Types: The fund will support the publishing of peer-reviewed research articles published either in Gold/fully Open Access journals or in hybrid journals which are on the JISC Transformative Journals list. Use of this fund for publishing in a ‘hybrid’ journal that is not on the Transformative Journals list will not be permitted.  The fund will also cover funding for monographs and book chapters.

Licence: The publisher must permit a CC BY licence to be applied to the final published version. As an exception, you can ask for individual articles to be published under a Creative Commons No-Derivatives licence (CC BY-ND), so that your research cannot be used to create derivatives works without your permission. To apply for this exception, you should complete a CC BY-ND exception form. You will need to have your request approved before your paper is submitted for publication

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 excess page charges or colour charges.

Other Funders: The open access publication costs should be split proportionately in line with the funders’ relative contributions, where the research reported is funded by more than one funding agency that mandates open access and the funding agency provides funding for open access. If research funders don’t mandate open access or if Wellcome is the lead funder on a piece of research, they are willing to pay the full open access fee.

Full details about Wellcome Trust's Open Access Funding, including details on how to apply, can be found here.

UKRI, Innovate UK and Research England

Coventry University receive the UKRI's Block Grant to fund Open Access Publishing. Authors in receipt of Funding from any UKRI Research Council (including Innovate UK and Research England) are eligible to apply. Full details of this fund can be found here.