Open access publishing makes your online scholarly work available, free of charge to anyone. It facilitates the discovery and sharing of knowledge and may be required by your research funder.

51³Ô¹ÏÍø has an open access policy that enables staff to meet the requirements for REF and their funders. You are advised to upload your work on acceptance to Symplectic, for deposit in Spiral, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's repository.

Funding is available to make the published version of your work immediately available from the publisher’s website.

Open access at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø

Contact the open access team

We are based in Library Services and can advise on all aspects of open access publishing and policy.

Open access at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø

Deposit in the Spiral repository

Comply with research funders' and 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's policies

Prepare your thesis for submission