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Application for APC to be paid from College REF OA fund

The fund has been set up to support authors being submitted to the REF to meet the REF Open Access policy requirements. The fund will be used to pay Article Processing Charges for articles meeting the criteria below.

Please note the fund can only be used for staff and articles meeting the following criteria:

  1. The article has been identified by the DoR / UoA as needing to be supported by the fund.
  2. The article needs to be 3 or 4*.
  3. The APC will be used to publish OA in a fully OA journal, preferably using the CC-BY licence.
  4. There must be no REF OA compliance route via deposit into Pure. If REF OA compliance can be obtained via the deposit of the Author's Accepted Manuscript into Pure and then this manuscript being made OA, this route must be taken. The fund can not be used in these circumstances.
  5. There must be no provision within the research grant for OA, if so, this must be used rather than the College REF OA fund.
  6. If the PI has more than £10k in their PI account, the fund can not be used.

All applications must be authorised by the relevant Director of Research or the UoA lead.

Staff are asked to submit this form as early as possible in the article publishing process so guidance can be given including the details of deals with certain publishers.

For any questions about completing the form or REF OA, please email openaccess@royalholloway.ac.uk