Open Access Charges

Our funding agencies will cover most open access charges. It's still neccesary to apply for this funding. This process is described here:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/support-for-staff/scholarly-communication/open-access/applying-for-funding/

• Can only apply once manuscript has been accepted:
• Imperial Open Access Fund (Imperial Fund) is available to authors who do not have eligible open access funding in their research award or whose work is not externally funded.
• Look at list of journals they fund Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). However, they did fund eLife for me despite it not being listed.

Then deposit in Symplectic: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/SymplecticElements/login.html

To make an application for APC funding, deposit your accepted manuscript in Symplectic and select "yes" when prompted

If your application is approved, you will receive an email within 2 to 5 days which will include further instructions and a purchase order (PO) number to facilitate payment.

Grant ref for open access charges is UKDRI-5008. Ideally the specific grant numbers should be added to the acknowledgements of the papers.

Students on the MRC DTC have a separate grant code for their publications. For the 2018 intake it is MR/N014103/1.