Open Access Funding

Open Access Funding (Article/Book Processing Charges)

The University of Northampton has a small institutional fund for the payment of article/book processing charges.  These must be agreed prior to submission/signing of contract with the Head of REF & Research Support, in addition the following conditions must be met:

• No “green” route to open access is available (open access achieved through the accepted manuscript being deposited in Pure) – this normally occurs in open access only journals, that require the payment of an article processing charge in order to publish.
• Principle (primary) author must be staff member or post graduate student currently employed by the University of Northampton
• Affiliation on output must be University of Northampton
• Article must be published under a CC-BY licence unless prior agreement from Head of REF & Research Support
• Submitted manuscript must include data availability statement (even if no new data has been generated).
• Accepted manuscript must be deposited in Pure
• Dataset with the underlying data that would be required to reproduce the research must be deposited in Pure and validated prior to submission.
• Adequate funding must be available in APC/BPC budget
• Include a retention rights statement e.g., ‘For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.’
• Payment will not be made for journals/publishers that are considered predatory or vanity publishers – if unsure – email research@northampton.ac.uk who can advise further.
  APC/BPCs will not paid retrospectively.

Note

Colour charges and extra page charges will not be paid for

• Articles published by Taylor and Francis, Wiley and Sage whilst not occurring additional costs at point of publication (cost covered as part of read and publish subscription deal) will automatically go to the Head of REF & Research Support for approval when articles are submitted  – they will not be approved unless conditions above have been met and CC-BY licence has been selected for publication licence.
• No more than one APC will be paid per year for one author
• Some funders allow for article processing charges to be factored into bids – please ensure you cost these if appropriate  UKRI requires immediate open access for all publications up to 7 years from project end – separate funding is available for long-form publications for this.
• Payment for monographs and chapters will also be considered as part of this fund.

Publishing “gold” allows the published version of your output to be made freely available immediately upon publication to anyone with internet access, rather than the accepted manuscript (sometimes referred to as the post-print, or author’s final version).

If you need assistance when publishing with any publisher contact research@northampton.ac.uk and a member of our team can take you through the copyright transfer process.