Request funding for an APC

OA Policy: RCUK

Funded peer-reviewed journal articles or conference papers must be made available open access within 12 months of the date of publication (ESRC/AHRC) or 6 months (MRC, EPSRC, NERC, BBSRC, STFC).

Papers must include:

• An acknowledgement of RCUK funding, eg:

"This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number xxxx]; and the Natural Environment Research Council [grant number yyyy]."

• Details of how any underlying research materials such as data, samples or models, can be accessed.

Articles requiring an APC to be paid to fulfil RCUK requirements should be made available using the most liberal and enabling licence, ideally CC-BY.

Are funds provided?

RCUK provides LSE with an annual block grant to support their open access policy. 

This grant is managed centrally by the Library on a first come first served basis. 

Am I eligible?

• Your publication must arise wholly or in part from RCUK funded research.

• Journal complies with RCUK Policy on Open Access.

• Journal does not allow RCUK compliant Green deposit or there is a compelling case for choosing Gold Open Access.

• You must be either the corresponding author or grant holder.

How do I apply?

Contact us and provide the following information: 

• Manuscript Title

• Journal Title & Publisher

• Funding Council and Grant Number

• Name of Principal Investigator

• Name of Grant Holder

OA Policy: European Commission (ERC, FP7, Horizon 2020)

Research articles, monographs - and associated research data - wholly or partly funded by ERC, FP7 or Horizon 2020 must be made available open access within 12 months of the date of publication (SSH subjects) or 6 months (STEM subjects).

Beneficiaries must:

• Provide an acknowledgement of funding in the following format:

"This project has received funding from the [European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme] under grant number No. [Number]."

• Deposit a copy of the article in an institutional or subject repository, even if the gold route (or hybrid payment) has been chosen. 

• Include the publication date, the length of the embargo period (if applicable) and a persistent identifier.

• Add the paper into the final report to the European Commission.

In all cases, the Commission encourages authors to retain their copyright and grant adequate licences to publishers (eg CC-BY or CC0 licences). 

Are funds provided?

No. OA fees must be budgeted into grants as "direct eligible costs", provided they are incurred during the project.  

OA Policy: Closed FP7 projects

The European Commission are running a pilot open access for new publications from completed  FP7 projects with an end date of 1 January 2013 or later. 

Are funds provided?

Yes, externally.

Am I eligible?

• You must either be an FP7* project coordinator or a partner.

• Your publication must either be a research article, a contribution to conference proceedings, a book chapter or a monograph, or a data and software publication.

• Your peer-reviewed publication must be accepted in a fully Open Access Journal.

• Your research paper must be published under a CC-BY license (CC-BY-NC for monographs during the first year).

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• Your paper must be deposited into an OpenAIRE compliant repository (such as LSE Research Online) within 12 or 6 months of publication depending on your research area.

*ERC grants and Marie Curie actions are also eligible for this funding as part of the FP7’s IDEAS resp. PEOPLE program

How do I apply?

The OpenAIRE central service collects requests for funding from eligible FP7 projects. They also run a helpdesk to answer your questions about the FP7 OA pilot and the ERC OA Guidelines.

Or

Contact us when you have a paper accepted for publication and we will advise on a case-by-case basis.

Strict conditions apply:

The OpenAIRE project:

• Will NOT refund any APCs.

• Will NOT fund any papers published in hybrid journals.

• Has set a cap of 2,000 euros per APC.

• Will fund a maximum of 3 publications per project.

• Will not allow retrospective claims on fees already paid.

Are funds provided?

The School provides an internal fund to support the publication of outputs which haven't received any funding and are going to be accepted in born open access journals. A born open access journal does not charge any subscription fees and makes all their content freely available to readers. Most of them charge an Article Processing Charge (APC) to the author/institution.

The budget is managed centrally by the Library on a first come first served basis.  

Am I eligible?

• Journal offers a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).

• Details of the research outputs must be deposited to LSE Research Online (LSERO) upon the date of acceptance.

How do I apply?

Contact us and provide the following information:

• Name(s) of LSE author(s) along with their Department/Centre

• Manuscript Title

• Date of Acceptance

• Journal Title and Publisher