To be eligible for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) your journal articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN number must be deposited in SHURA within three months of the date of acceptance for publication.
The ‘gold’ route to Open Access consists of publishing in a journal that provides immediate Open Access on the publisher’s website, often after paying an Article Processing Charge (APC) to cover publication costs.
The ‘green’ route to Open Access (‘self-archiving’) consists of depositing the final peer-reviewed copy (‘post-print’) of an article in an institutional (SHU’s respository is called SHURA) or subject repository in parallel with conventional publication. Your deposit may be subject to a publisher’s embargo.
Find out how to deposit your research on the SHU Research Archive (SHURA) and also about subject repositories and social networking sites which you may wish to use in addition to SHURA.
In order to be eligible for the next REF, journal articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN number must be deposited in an the SHURA, no later than three months after the point of acceptance for publication.
When publishing ‘gold’ Open Access, publishers may request an Article Processing Charge (APC) to cover publication costs.
If you are interested in this route to Open Access you can find out more about APCs and funding for ‘Gold’ Open Access .
Funders and publishers acknowledge three phases in the writing of a manuscript. It is helpful to understand the different phases of a manuscript when you are considering Open Access as you will for example, need to deposit the ‘post-print’ version on SHURA.
Please make sure that you understand and meet Open Access requirements:
The University’s policy for open access to publications: Academic Board endorsed a policy in 2014 that requires researchers to add a record of all publications to SHURA on acceptance and to deposit a copy as soon as possible afterwards. SHU Open Access publication policy
HEFCE REF policy for Open Access: This states that for the next REF, articles and conference papers (published with an ISSN) that are accepted after 1 April 2016 must be deposited into SHURA within 3 months of the date of acceptance. Open Access and the REF
Funders requirements for Open Access: For example, UKRI’s (formerly RCUK) policy on Open Access states that all peer-reviewed research papers that acknowledge UKRI funding submitted for publishing from 1 April 2013 onwards, and that are published in journals and conference proceedings, must be made publicly available through Open Access. Funder Open Access requirements
How to add your research outputs to SHURA.