Open access policies

The University Senate approved a policy for Open Access to Research in 2014. This policy states that the institution shall adopt, by default, the ‘green’ or ‘self-archiving’ model of free open access in order to satisfy external research body requirements. It is now a University mandatory requirement for academic staff to deposit full text copies of the author final version (post refereeing and correction) of journal articles and conference proceedings in Pure.

The University Senate has also approved a Research Data Management policy.

Funder open access policies

Your external funding body may have a policy that requires you to make your research outputs open access. You can check the Sherpa/Juliet funder policy database and some examples of funder policies can be found below.

• CSO
• ERC
• NIHR
• UKRI
• Wellcome Trust

For more information on funder open access policies please email: libraryresearch@gcu.ac.uk.