This document discusses open access at the University of Birmingham (UoB). It outlines the university's guidance on open access compliance with funder policies, preservation of open access publications in institutional repositories, and management of article processing charges for gold open access. The document provides an overview of green open access self-archiving and gold open access publication models. It encourages researchers to make their work openly accessible, be aware of publisher agreements, and check funder dissemination requirements. Contact information is provided for the university's open access support services.

1. the University
perspective
Suzanne Atkins : Open Access & Research Publications Advisor
Digital Assets Team
What does open access mean for you? June 2014

2. What are we doing at UoB?
 Guidance
 Compliance
 Preservation
All increasing the visibility of your research

3. Guidance
 Different routes to Open Access (Green or
Gold)
 Funder and publisher policies
 Copyright issues

4. Gold
Article processing
charge (APC) paid
Author/
institution
usually pay
APC to
publisher
Free and
immediate
access on
journal’s
usual
platform
Green
Self-Archive version in
Open Access repository
No fees
paid to
publisher
RCUK accept
a range of
embargo
periods after
publication
Usually
accepted
version
(post print)

5. Compliance
 In many cases, researchers can upload final draft
manuscript to Pure and be compliant with funders
and publishers policies (Green OA)
 Library manages central budget for APCs for Gold
Open Access
 Reporting to funders/ preparing for the ‘post-2014’
REF – HEFCE OA policy (Apr 2016)

6. Preservation
 Institutional repository for OA publications:
UBIRA/Pure
 Metadata to ensure discoverability and
visibility
 Developing preservation of research datasets

7. As researchers, what do you want
from publishing?
or

8. Top tips for authors
 Go as open as you can by depositing final drafts in
PURE/UBIRA
 Keep accepted final draft version of your work
 Be familiar with your publisher conditions. Read
any CTA you sign about your rights
 If you are funded check what your obligations are
on dissemination

9. Open Access support for researchers
Library Services support for Open Access
 Intranet Open Access pages
https://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/openaccess/
 Contact the Digital Assets team
openaccesspublications@contacts.bham.ac.uk