Presentation given by Bryan Johnson and Catherine Sharp at the UCL Institute of Education about the REF 2021 Open Access policy which came into effect on 1st April 2016

1. Open access for UCL IOE
Bryan Johnson
Catherine Sharp
bryan.johnson@ucl.ac.uk
open-access@ucl.ac.uk

2. About open access
• Research can be read online for free by anyone, anytime, anywhere –
as long as they have internet access
• Digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing
restrictions
Benefits
• Subscription model limits access even in developed
countries
• Vastly increased access in developing countries,
industry (esp SMEs), policymakers
• Increases public understanding; informed citizens
• Visibility leads to higher citations

3. Types of Open Access
GREEN
Open access to the final accepted
manuscript in a repository such as
UCL Discovery, after the publisher’s
embargo period (6 months +)
GOLD
Immediate open access to the published PDF
on the publisher’s website, in exchange for a
fee

4. REF open access policy
Requirements
•Deposit final peer-reviewed manuscript
of articles and conference proceedings
(with an ISSN) in a repository
•Best practice: deposit on acceptance
At the latest, 3 months after publication
•Policy started 1 April 2016
Sanctions
Non-compliant outputs cannot be
submitted to the next REF
Embargo period
•Journal must allow OA within 24
months of publication
UCL policy
•Deposit all outputs

5. Research funders’ open access policies
• ESRC: Gold preferred, funds available
• FP7: funds available for fully open access journals
• Horizon 2020: (1) open access in a repository within 6 months OR
(2) Gold open access: funding through grants
• UCL IOE currently has a special agreement with Taylor & Francis that
allows any IOE corresponding author to choose Gold open access

6. www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access

7. www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/deposit

8. www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access/faqs

11. Enter the following details:
(1) Your relationship with the article - (2) Article type - (3) Title -
(4) Authors - (5) Journal - (6) Publication Date -
(7) Date of acceptance

16. Help and support
www.ucl.ac.uk/library/open-access
open-access@ucl.ac.uk
bryan.johnson@ucl.ac.uk
@UCLopenaccess
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