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class="lead"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are a researcher at the University of York you can request funding from York Open Access Fund (YOAF) to pay open access fees for articles, books and chapters.</span></p></div> <h2>Where can I publish open access?</h2> <p><span>Find journals where you can publish open access free of charge, or where fees are paid by the Library.</span></p> </div> <div class="o-grid__box o-grid__box--third is-hidden@small-">  <div class="c-panel c-panel--compact"> <div class="c-panel__content"> <h3>Contact us</h3> <p><b>Open Research team</b><br>Email <a href="mailto:lib-open-research@york.ac.uk">lib-open-research@york.ac.uk</a> or <a href="https://yorkalit.targetconnect.net/leap/appointments.html?types=357">book an online appointment</a></p> <p> <p> </p> </div> </div>  </div> </div><div id="scfwid" data-account="york" ></div> <script lang="javascript"> function onScriptLoaded() { scifree.onWidgetLoaded().then((widget) => { var customFormStyles = 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style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which enable you to publish open access at no additional cost. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Your publisher does not charge an open access fee. </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can use the search box above to identify journals that are covered by open access publishing agreements; journals that do not charge open access fees; and journals that are eligible for funding from YOAF.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">YOAF consists of several funding streams. The eligibility criteria for these vary depending on the funding source (either the University or a funding body) and the type of publication. The main funding bodies involved are </span><a href="https://www.ukri.org/councils/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://wellcome.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wellcome Trust</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The institutional open access fund is funded from the Library budget.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Library will decide which funding stream is most appropriate for your publication, based on the information you provide in your application. However, we recommend that you review the criteria, listed below, before committing to any costs. Please note that we cannot provide funding if your publication does not meet one of these sets of criteria. </span></p> <p class="cta"><a href="https://uni-york.formstack.com/forms/yoaf">Request Open Access funding</a></p> <p><span>We advise that you submit your request as early in the publication process as possible and before committing to any costs with your publisher. (You can request funds before submission for publication). If we approve your request, but it later turns out that the funding is no longer required, please let us know, so that we can release the funds for others.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="o-grid__row"> <div class="o-grid__box o-grid__box--twothirds"> <h2>Eligibility criteria</h2> </div> </div> <div class="o-grid__row"> <div class="o-grid__box o-grid__box--twothirds"> <div class="c-accordion"> <div class="c-accordion__item js-accordion__item"> <button class="c-accordion__title">Journal and conference proceedings articles not funded by UKRI or Wellcome Trust (institutional open access fund).<i class="c-accordion__icon c-icon c-icon--plus c-icon--after"></i></button> <div class="c-accordion__content" id="accordion-1059427"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The open access fee must not be eligible for payment by a research funder, including via a research grant.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least one of the authors must be a member of staff, postgraduate researcher, or emeritus/emerita affiliated to the University of York on the date when the article is submitted for publication. The University of York must be given as the institutional affiliation on the published article. (Undergraduate and postgraduate taught students are not eligible to apply for the fund).</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must be a peer reviewed research article, review article, protocol, or method article. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must be published in a fully open access journal or platform listed in the </span><a href="https://doaj.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Directory of Open Access Journals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or in a fully open access conference proceeding. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must be made open access immediately on publication.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must be published under a </span><a href="https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/creative-commons/by"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> licence.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The open access fee must not exceed £3,000, excluding VAT. The fund cannot be used to pay towards open access fees that are over £3,000, even where the excess can be paid from other sources.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other costs associated with publishing, such as colour charges, overlength charges, cover image charges and submission charges cannot be paid.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must include a data access statement where appropriate.</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="c-accordion__item js-accordion__item"> <button class="c-accordion__title">Journal and conference proceedings articles funded by UKRI <i class="c-accordion__icon c-icon c-icon--plus c-icon--after"></i></button> <div class="c-accordion__content" id="accordion-939956"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must acknowledge support from one or more of the UKRI research councils. (Articles acknowledging support from Research England via directly funded projects are eligible, but not those supported via the quality related income received following the REF).</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least one of the authors must be a member of staff, postgraduate researcher, or emeritus/emerita affiliated to the University of York on the date when the article is submitted for publication. The University of York must be given as the institutional affiliation on the published article.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must be a peer-reviewed research article, or review article.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must be published in one of the following: a fully open access journal listed in the </span><a href="https://doaj.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Directory of Open Access Journals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; a fully open access conference proceeding; a fully open access publication platform. The </span><a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/resources/journal-checker-tool-jct/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plan S Journal Checker Tool</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> can be used to check eligibility and publication routes.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must be made open access immediately on publication.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must be published under a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> licence, or under a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives (CC BY-ND) licence if an exception has been granted by UKRI (see <a href="https://www.ukri.org/publications/no-derivatives-licence-exception/">No-derivatives licence exception form</a>).<br /></span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Submission fees can be paid if an open access fee is being paid as well for the same article (i.e. only if the article is accepted for publication and results in open access publication).</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other costs associated with publishing, such as colour charges, overlength charges and cover image charges cannot be paid.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must include a data access statement where appropriate.</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="c-accordion__item js-accordion__item"> <button class="c-accordion__title">Journal and conference proceedings articles funded by Wellcome Trust<i class="c-accordion__icon c-icon c-icon--plus c-icon--after"></i></button> <div class="c-accordion__content" id="accordion-939959"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must acknowledge support from Wellcome Trust.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least one of the authors must be a member of staff, postgraduate researcher, or emeritus/emerita affiliated to the University of York on the date when the article is submitted for publication. The University of York must be given as the institutional affiliation on the published article.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must be a peer-reviewed research article, research/study protocol, systematic review, scoping review or meta-analysis.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must be published in one of the following: a fully open access journal listed in the </span><a href="https://doaj.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Directory of Open Access Journals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; a fully open access conference proceedings; a fully open access publication platform. The </span><a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/resources/journal-checker-tool-jct/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Plan S Journal Checker Tool</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> can be used to check eligibility and publication routes.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must be made open access immediately on publication.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Articles must be published under a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> licence, or under a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives (CC BY-ND) licence if an exception has been granted by Wellcome Trust (see <a href="https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/guidance/open-access-guidance/applying-no-derivatives-nd-licence-exception">Applying for an No-Derivatives (ND) Licence exception</a>).<br /></span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other costs associated with publishing, such as colour charges, overlength charges, cover image charges and submission charges cannot be paid.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The article must include a data access statement where appropriate.</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="c-accordion__item js-accordion__item"> <button class="c-accordion__title">Books and chapters not funded by UKRI or Wellcome Trust (institutional open access fund).<i class="c-accordion__icon c-icon c-icon--plus c-icon--after"></i></button> <div class="c-accordion__content" id="accordion-939963"> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The fund can pay for monographs, textbooks, edited collections, or individual book chapters to be made open access immediately on publication.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The prospective publisher must operate on a fully open access model. Open access publishers will often charge for physical copies of books or for other services, but all new books published by the publisher should be made available in a digital format, in full, for no charge to the reader.  </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">All requests will be subject to final consideration by the Library and dependent on funding availability.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open access publication fees cannot exceed £10,000 (including VAT) for a book (monograph or edited collection) or £1,000 (including VAT) for a book chapter. Charges should be transparently accounted for and must be reasonable in consideration of the length and complexity of the published work.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The open access fee must not be eligible for payment by a research funder, including via a research grant.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least one of the authors must be a member of staff, postgraduate researcher, or emeritus/emerita affiliated to the University of York on the date when the publication contract is signed. The University of York must be given as the institutional affiliation on the published work.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The work should be published with a <a href="https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/creative-commons/by">Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)</a> licence, though where necessary other Creative Commons licences may be used. For further guidance, see <a href="https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/creative-commons/home">Creative Commons for Researchers: a Practical Guide</a>.</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="c-accordion__item js-accordion__item"> <button class="c-accordion__title">Books and chapters funded by UKRI <i class="c-accordion__icon c-icon c-icon--plus c-icon--after"></i></button> <div class="c-accordion__content" id="accordion-939965"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">UKRI has a centrally-held fund to pay open access fees for UKRI funded books and chapters. If you are planning to publish a UKRI funded book or chapter, you can submit a request via the form that is linked to from this page and the Library will request open access funding from UKRI on your behalf. UKRI will not accept direct requests from authors. </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The publication must acknowledge support from one or more of the UKRI research councils. (Articles acknowledging support from Research England via directly funded projects are eligible, but not those supported via the quality related income received following the REF).</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least one of the authors must be a member of staff, postgraduate researcher, or emeritus/emerita affiliated to the University of York on the date when the publication contract is signed. The University of York must be given as the institutional affiliation on the published work.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The publication must be a monograph, book chapter, or edited collection published on or after 1 January 2024. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The work must be published under a Creative Commons licence. Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) is preferred by UKRI. An Open Government Licence is also permitted when authors are subject to Crown Copyright. For further guidance, see </span><a href="https://subjectguides.york.ac.uk/creative-commons/home"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons for Researchers: a Practical Guide</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UKRI will pay a total of £10,000 inc. VAT for a monograph or edited collection and a total of £1,000 inc. VAT for a book chapter.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Third party rights fees can also be paid, up to a limit of £2,000 inc VAT, if they cannot be paid from a research grant.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="c-accordion__item js-accordion__item"> <button class="c-accordion__title">Books and chapters funded by Wellcome Trust <i class="c-accordion__icon c-icon c-icon--plus c-icon--after"></i></button> <div class="c-accordion__content" id="accordion-939964"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Funding for Wellcome funded books and chapters must be </span><a href="https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/guidance/open-access-guidance/complying-with-our-open-access-policy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">requested directly from Wellcome Trust</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="o-grid__row"> <div class="o-grid__box o-grid__box--twothirds"> <h2>Frequently asked questions</h2> </div> </div> <div class="o-grid__row"> <div class="o-grid__box o-grid__box--twothirds"> <div class="c-accordion"> <div class="c-accordion__item js-accordion__item"> <button class="c-accordion__title">Can YOAF pay open access fees for transformative journals (TJs)? <i class="c-accordion__icon c-icon c-icon--plus c-icon--after"></i></button> <div class="c-accordion__content" id="accordion-1137918"> <p>Transformative journals (TJs) are journals that have made a commitment to transition from a subscription-based model to being fully open access. Some research funders, particularly those that are members of <a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/about/">cOAlition S</a>, adopted this definition in order to encourage and support the transition of journals. cOAlition S funders continued to pay open access fees for TJs for an interim period after they stopped funding open access fees for most subscription journals. <strong>From 1st January 2025, cOAlition S funders will no longer fund open access fees in TJs.</strong></p> <p>UKRI and Wellcome Trust are both cOAlition S members and will not fund open access fees from this date. If you wish to request OA funding for a UKRI or Wellcome Trust funded article in a TJ which has been, or is likely to be, accepted for publication before the end of 2024, please get in touch by emailing lib-open-research@york.ac.uk prior to submitting the YOAF request form.</p> <p>The institutional open access fund has never paid open access fees in TJs and this remains the case after 2024.</p> <p>The <a href="https://journalcheckertool.org/">cOAlition S Journal Checker Tool</a> can be used to identify TJs (at least until the end of 2024).</p> </div> </div> <div class="c-accordion__item js-accordion__item"> <button class="c-accordion__title">Can YOAF pay publication fees for PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)? <i class="c-accordion__icon c-icon c-icon--plus c-icon--after"></i></button> <div class="c-accordion__content" id="accordion-1123451"> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">YOAF is not able to pay any publication fees for PNAS. PNAS offers two publication options, both of which attract a fee. The first is ‘delayed open access’, whereby the paper is initially published behind a paywall and then made open access after six months. The second is immediate open access. Because delayed open access does not meet the definition of open access that the University and funders follow, PNAS does not class as a fully open access journal, and so is not eligible for funding from the open access fund. You should consider carefully before submitting to PNAS whether you are able to pay either of the fees. 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