How to Publish OA Articles
There are several ways to publish your research outputs open access.
Articles / conference proceedings
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Gold route
This may incur an Article Processing Charge (APC). There are two routes that you may be able to follow to cover the cost:
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Choose to publish in a journal covered by a UEA Read and Publish transitional journal deal (where APCs are covered/reduced). (Both UEA staff and research students are covered by these deals)
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Use grant funding if applicable (block grants for UKRI, Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation). Strict guidelines (e.g. choice of journal) must be followed to be eligible for grant funds. The Open Research Team can advise on this and how to apply.
There are no centralised sources of funding at UEA to cover APC charges for research articles, so if neither of the above options are valid you should consider publishing open access via the Green route.
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Green route
This involves placing the Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) (the version following peer review but before publisher typesetting) in an open access repository (e.g. UEA’s digital repository) but often after an embargo period set by the publisher. The publisher may also specify particular licences for re-use. You should check your funder’s requirements before choosing this route in case the embargo period and/or licence options do not comply with the funder's open access policy. The Open Research Team can advise on this.
Rights retention is an alternative green open access route that eliminates the embargo period and allows the author(s) to specify a re-use licence of their choosing, but it requires the author to clearly state this, usually at the point of submission to the publisher, by including a ‘Rights Retention Statement’ within the Acknowledgements section of the article and in the covering letter.
