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Depositing your work in ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Research Online is known as Green open access.

• Email us your Author Accepted Manuscript immediately and no later than 3 months after acceptance. 
• We’ll make your research open access on publication, under a CC BY licence in accordance with ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Open Access policy.

What is an “Author Accepted Manuscript”?

It is your own final version, after peer-review and any subsequent edits, but without any copyediting or formatting by the publisher. It is also referred to as a post-print or AAM.

• If the book or chapter is UKRI funded, .
• Otherwise, email your Author Accepted Manuscript to us and we'll check publisher policies to find out how we can make your research open access.
• From 1 January 2026, monographs, chapters and edited collections will fall under ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Open Access Policy and can be made open access from ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳RO with a Creative Commons licence.

•  Send us the details of your publications and we'll add bibliographic records to ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Research Online.
• If you have the full text, send this to us and we'll make it open access if permitted by the publisher.

We have transformative publishing agreements that allow ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ staff and students to publish open access without paying. Check the list to see if your journal is eligible.

The corresponding author will need to be ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ affiliated (honorary or visiting positions are not eligible) and use their ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ email. Please ensure you select the CC BY licence.

Check these links for information about how to check your eligibility and take advantage of these agreements:

If you are funded by a  you can apply to use the UKRI block grant to cover open access publishing costs.

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ has an institutional fund to support non-funded researchers to publish their work open access. The fund is limited and requests will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. Eligibility criteria may be stricter when the fund is low. 

Eligibility criteria

• Open to all current ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ staff and research students (honorary or visiting positions not eligible).
• We will only provide funding to papers submitted to fully open access journals, indexed in the .
• CC BY licence must be chosen.

Apply for open access funding

Use this form to apply for open access funding.