On this page you can find the following guidance documents (Select the + to see all the files):

-	Open Access fact sheet

-	Funder OA policies

-	Open access discounts and waiver schemes

-	Open access tools fact sheet

-	Open access publishing policy

-	Elements Quick Start Guid

Fodor, Alice

Gibson, Alice

Walker, Dominic

LSHTM Research Online

Improving health worldwide www.lshtm.ac.ukOpen AccessOpen Access (OA) refers to making research outputs freely available online withlimited re-use restrictions. Articles can be open access directly via a publisher orbe made available in institutional repositories like LSHTM Research Online.Traditionally, journal articles have only been accessible to researchers whoseinstitutional libraries pay subscription fees to publishers. OA breaks downbarriers to access for not only researchers with limited resources but also awide range of other interested readers, including students, policy makers,journalists and health professionals.LSHTM supports open access• To help articles reach more people. Many more researchers, students, health professionals and members of the public are able to read articles if they are made available openly. OA work is generally read more and cited more than work only available via the publisher• To promote the School’s research. Our repository, LSHTM Research Online, showcases the wide variety of research undertaken in the School• To meet funders’ OA policies. To ensure a good return on their investment in research, all major funders strongly support open access. HEFCE also mandates OA for all research articles in the next REF (Research Excellence Framework) in 2021How to make your articles open accessAlmost all articles can be made open access through one of two routes. • Green open access refers to making articles available from a repository like LSHTM Research Online. This is free for the author and for the reader• Gold open access refers to paying a publisher’s open access fee to make the article OA upon publication via the journal website. Fees are usually covered by funders’ grantsGreen open access• Green OA makes use of publishers’ re-use policies. Most publishers allow deposit of the ‘accepted manuscript’ (i.e. final draft after peer review but before typesetting) in a repository• An embargo period may apply (often 6-12 months), during which the article is locked for download until after that period expires. Journal policies can be checked on http://sherpa.ac.uk/romeo • The important thing is that the article is made open eventually – OA articles receive more downloads than those only available via subscriptionGold open access• An advantage of paying for gold OA is that articles are openly available upon publication• Articles are also published under a Creative Commons copyright license, which lets that article be freely shared, along with other re-uses defined by the particular license appliedImproving health worldwide www.lshtm.ac.uk• Subscription journals usually allow gold open access (these are called hybrid journals), and there are a growing range of fully open access journals, which tend to have lower fees (e.g. journals by publishers like PLoS, BioMed Central, F1000 and Frontiers)• Some fully open access journals are free to publish in (e.g. Wellcome Open Research, Gates Open Research, and others listed on DOAJ.org)Funding for open access• Funds to pay for open access articles emerging from COAF (inc. Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation) and RCUK (inc. MRC, BBSRC, ESRC, NERC) funded research are available upon application via the Library• An application form (available at http://bit.do/lshtmopenaccess) should be sent to the Research Publication Team, who will check eligibility and funding availability• The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation directly manage open access funding for Gates-funded research• For other funders, open access allowances can often be written into grant proposals, and some may have central funds available to cover OA fees• Waivers and discounts are often available for unfunded research where you are submitting to a fully open access journal. The Library can aid a waiver request made to a publisher by providing a letter in support Making your work open access for free• To deposit your work in LSHTM Research Online, simply email the accepted manuscriptto publications@lshtm.ac.uk alongside the date of acceptance for publication• The Research Publications Team will add the work to Publications Database and LSHTM Research OnlineOpen Access Policy essentialsIt is expected that all research staff follow the REF policy and the policy of their funder• REF 2021: to REF eligible, accepted manuscripts (final drafts) should be deposited on Research Online within 3 months of acceptance, unless gold open access is paid for• Wellcome Trust/COAF prefers gold OA (under the CC BY copyright license), but allows green OA if the article is made open in PubMed Central within 6 months of publication• RCUK: green or gold OA is acceptable. Gold articles should be published under the CC BY license. MRC articles should be OA within 6 months of publication via a repository if gold funding is unavailable and should be open on PubMed Central within this period; NERC & BBSRC allow 12 months and AHRC & ESRC allow 24 months for green OA• The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation only allows gold open accessKey contactsGOLD OA                                                     researchonline@lshtm.ac.ukGREEN OA                          publications@lshtm.ac.ukQUESTIONS/TRAINING REQUESTS       researchonline@lshtm.ac.ukWEBSITE                                                      bit.do/lshtmopenaccessTWITTER                                                     @lshtmopenaccess

LSHTM Open Access Guidance

http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/4645488/1/LSHTM%20OA%20factsheet.pdf

LSHTM Open Access Guidance

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