The University had a limited Article Processing Charges (APC) Application Fund to pay open access charges. This funding has now been exhausted and will not accept any more applications.
The only exception is for researchers in receipt of a research grant from UKRI or any of its funding councils, Research England or Innovate UK - In this instance researchers should complete the APC application form, stating they are in receipt of such funding to access the UKRI OA block grant we have received.
Where the research is funded under a grant, then funding for open access charges should be sought from the funder in the first instance. Please see Open Access Funding for more detail.
Open access without additional payment upon submission (Read & Publish agreements)
We have agreements in place so that some articles published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), American Chemical Society (ACS), American Psychological Association (APA), Cambridge University Press (CUP), Cogitatio, Elsevier, Public Library of Science (PLoS), Sage, Springer, Taylor & Francis or Wiley can be published with no direct APC to pay. You do not need to apply to the APC fund to benefit from gold open access in these journals. See this blog post for details of each publisher’s journal lists, criteria and updates on any new publishers added. These agreements will last until 31 December 2025.
Contact
Please contact [email protected] for more information or any queries about applying for APC funding.