Paying for open access publication charges

This guidance gives advice on paying for open access publication charges in journals and sets out recommendations for higher education institutions, publishers, research funders, and authors.

The RIN and Universities UK have produced this guide in response to the requirements of research funders for greater access to research outputs. Open access journals have become a growing part of the scholarly publishing landscape over the past few years, but the arrangements for paying publication fees have grown up haphazardly and are not standardised. Fees are sometimes met from unallocated funds available to researchers from research grants or other sources, but sometimes they have been met from researchers’ own pockets. This guidance addresses the haphazard nature of the payments system and offers research institutions guidance as to how they might deal with the issue as a part of its policy development.

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Publication: Research Information Network, London, UK, 2010.