Research articles, reviews and conference papers
All peer-reviewed research articles including reviews and conference papers that need to acknowledge funding from UKRI or any of its councils must be made open access.
To comply with the policy from 1 April 2022:
Before submitting your article to a journal
- Check your journal complies with the UKRI requirements using the Journal Checker Tool
- Check for additional charges such as page and colour charges as these will not be covered by the APC payment.
Monographs, book chapters and edited collections
All monographs, book chapters and edited collections (longform outputs) that need to acknowledge funding from UKRI or any of its councils must be made open access from 1 January 2024 (there is no requirement for monographs, book chapters and edited collections published before 1 January 2024 to be published open access).
To comply with the policy from 1 January 2024:
When contacting your preferred publisher
- Inform them that your publication is in scope of the UKRI open access policy and check if they can offer a compliant open access publishing option
You can read the full policy and FAQs on the UKRI policy webpage.