Open access increases the impact of scholarly research by supporting free and permanent online access to research outputs.
Benefits of open access
- Enable authors to disseminate their work to the widest possible audience
- Make publicly funded work available to the public
- Increase visibility and citations for research outputs
- Ensure the preservation and longevity of materials in institutional repositories
- Open Access Citation Advantage: an annotated bibliography
REF and open access
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) requires all published articles and proceedings submitted to REF 2021 to be made available as open access.
Funders and open access
Many funders now require funded published outputs, such as journal articles and proceedings, to be made open access.
Deposit to Pure
Ensure your research profile remains up to date. Use Pure to self-archive your author accepted manuscript in the University repository (UBIRA). Meet University, funder and REF requirements with self-archiving.
Deposit to Pure
Publish open access without fees
You may be able to publish open access at no further cost in one of our publisher agreements.
Use our Search Tool to check if a particular journal is covered and follow the link under 'Who Pays' to view eligibility criteria and procedures.
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Email openaccesspublications@contacts.bham.ac.uk