Funder requirements

All peer-reviewed publications arising from research funded by Horizon Europe must be made open access.

To comply with the policy from 2021-2027:

• The publication must be available immediately on publication
• The article, review or conference paper must have a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY) or equivalent, monographs must have a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC), Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives (CC BY-ND) or equivalent license prohibiting commercial use or derivative works
• The publication must include a data access statement (even if there is no data associated or the data is not freely available) explaining how people can access the data your paper is based on.
• The publication must be deposited in a trusted repository (includes institutional repositories, such as e-space)

Please contact openresearch@mmu.ac.uk if you have any queries.

You can read the full policy on page 50 of the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

Before submitting your article to a journal

• Check your journal complies with Horizon Europe requirements using the Journal Checker Tool

The Leverhulme Trust makes no stipulations regarding mandatory archiving or open access publication for Leverhulme grant holders.

The Leverhulme Trust requires that all grant holders acknowledge support received from the Leverhulme Trust in any papers, books or other publications. When acknowledging support, you should include the Trust logo if possible.

Please contact openresearch@mmu.ac.uk if you have any queries.

All peer-reviewed research articles, including reviews not commissioned by publishers and conference papers funded wholly or partially by the National Institute for Health and Care Research must be made open access.

To comply with the policy from 1 June 2022:

• The article must be available immediately on publication
• The article must have a Creative Commons attribution licence (CC BY), or Open Government Licence (OGL) when subject to Crown Copyright (Unless you have secured special permission for a CC-BY-ND license from NIHR)
• The article must include a data sharing statement explaining how people can access the data your paper is based on
• The article must include a statement appropriately acknowledging NIHR funding.
• Articles must be deposited in PubMed Central (PMC) and Europe PubMed Central by the official final publication date

Monographs (with the exception of NIHR Journals Library publications), book chapters, edited collections, or forms of non-peer-reviewed material, such as pre-prints, are considered out of scope of the policy.

Please contact openresearch@mmu.ac.uk if you have any queries.

You can read the full policy on the NIHR policy webpage.

Before submitting your article to a journal

• Check for additional charges such as page and colour charges as these will not be covered by the APC payment.

Research articles, reviews and conference papers

All peer-reviewed research articles including reviews and conference papers that need to acknowledge funding from UKRI or any of its councils must be made open access.

To comply with the policy from 1 April 2022:

• The article must be available immediately on publication
• The article must have a  Creative Commons attribution licence (CC BY), (unless you have secured special permission for a CC-BY-ND license from UKRI)
• The article must include a data access statement (even if there is no data associated or the data is not freely available) explaining how people can access the data your paper is based on
• Articles funded by MRC and BBSRC must be deposited in Europe PubMed Central under a CC-BY license

Before submitting your article to a journal

• Check your journal complies with the UKRI requirements using the Journal Checker Tool
• Check for additional charges such as page and colour charges as these will not be covered by the APC payment.

Monographs, book chapters and edited collections

All monographs, book chapters and edited collections (longform outputs) that need to acknowledge funding from UKRI or any of its councils must be made open access from 1 January 2024 (there is no requirement for monographs, book chapters and edited collections published before 1 January 2024 to be published open access).

To comply with the policy from 1 January 2024:

• The longform output must be made open access within 12 months of publication
• Images, illustrations, tables and other supporting content should be included in the open access version, where possible
• The longform output must have a Creative Commons licence, with a Creative Commons attribution licence (CC BY) preferred. An Open Government Licence is also permitted. 
• Longform outputs funded by NERC must be deposited in NERC Open Research Archive (NORA)
• The university needs to register your longform output with the UKRI for funding. Fill in the UKRI Funding for Longform Publications form to inform us of your intention to publish at the earliest stage possible

When contacting your preferred publisher

• Inform them that your publication is in scope of the UKRI open access policy and check if they can offer a compliant open access publishing option

You can read the full policy and FAQs on the UKRI policy webpage.

All original, peer-reviewed research articles that are supported in whole, or in part, by Wellcome must be made open access.

To comply with the policy from 1 January 2021:

• The article must be available immediately on publication
• The article must have a  Creative Commons attribution licence (CC BY), (unless Wellcome have agreed as an exception to allow publication under a CC-BY-ND licence)
• The article must include a data access statement explaining how people can access the data your paper is based on.

• The article must include a statement acknowledging Wellcome funding.

• Articles must be made freely available through PubMed Central (PMC) and Europe PMC by the official final publication date

Monographs and book chapters are also included in the policy. To comply:

• The monograph must made freely available through NCBI Bookshelf PubMed Central (PMC) and Europe PMC as soon as possible and no later than within 6 months of the official final publication date

• Be published under a Creative Commons licence where a fee has been paid to the publisher to make the work open access

Please contact openresearch@mmu.ac.uk if you have any queries.

You can read the full policy and FAQs on the Wellcome policy webpage.

Before submitting your article to a journal

• Check your journal complies with the Wellcome requirements using the Journal Checker Tool
• Check if the journal charges an APC, and how this will be funded. Wellcome funds cannot be used to support these fees