

Provides a database of research funders open access policies. Provides details on publisher copyright and self-archiving policies and conditions. See details on the University of Sussex library website > Further resources on open access The University of Sussex has a very small PGR Open Access Fund to support Sussex/BSMS PGRs in publishing their work Gold Open Access when no other funds are available.

You can download the application form for this fund from SharePoint.

The University of Sussex also has a fund for Article Processing Charges (APCs) where the research is funded by UK Research Councils

These deals can change on an annual basis, so it is best to check the institutional gold open access deals and discounts section of the University of Sussex library website. The University of Sussex has a number of deals and membership with several publishers which provide discounts, including Royal Society Publishing, PeerJ, Sage, Springer and Taylor and Francis.In addition, all published work must be given a Creative Commons licence – CC BY, which allows others to distribute, remix, tweak and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as the original author is credited. This can be one of three routes: publication in an open access journal, publication in an approved subject or institutional repository or in a “hybrid” open access journal that is taking steps to become fully open access. Plan S requires authors with research funded by public grants to make their work open access on publication by 2020. Plan S is an initiative for open access publishing, that is supported by cOAlitionS, a consortium of research funders, which includes UK Research and Innovation.
