What do I need to do?

Upon submission

1. Include a Rights Retention statement in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in any covering letter: “For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)* licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission"
2. If submitting to a full open access venue, identify how you will pay any publishing fees before submitting
3. Contact Open Research upon submission if you need to apply for funding to publish open access.
4. Check if your publication venue charges page, colour, figure or excess length charges, most funders no longer pay these. Choose "colour online only" free of charge, or ask the publisher to waive these fees
5. If submitting to a journal included in one of the publisher agreements, check that the corresponding author meets the Exeter affiliation eligibility criteria, check if yours is an eligible article type and check the end date of the agreement.
6. Use your institutional email address on the publisher forms, this helps the publisher offer you relevant publishing options.
7. List your funding on the publisher forms, to help them offer you compliant publishing options.
8. Acknowledge funding in your publication using your funder's standard format, including funder name and grant reference.
9. Include a data access statement.
10. Use your ORCiD ID.

Upon acceptance

1. If you are not publishing open access with a Creative Commons licence on the publisher website, upload your  accepted manuscript via Symplectic to ORE within three months of acceptance  to comply with University policy and REF open access policy.
2. If the journal is included in a publisher agreement, it is an eligible article type, and you are the corresponding author, request open access in the publisher systems; we will be notified to approve your request; there should be no publishing fees to pay.
3. Check your funder requirements and make sure you do what is needed to comply.
4. Select an open access licence. To make your work as open access possible, we recommend Creative Commons Attribution Licence CC BY this is required by UKRI, Wellcome Trust, NIHR, Horizon Europe. Other Creative Commons licences are available, additional letters after CC BY e.g. NC, ND, place additional restrictions on reuse.
5. If funded by a PubMed Central (PMC) funder, ensure a copy is deposited in PMC. When you publish open access, the publisher should deposit to PMC on your behalf. If they do not, upload your manuscript using Europe PMC Plus manuscript submission system.
6. If you are funded by the European Commission, all peer-reviewed outputs must be uploaded via Symplectic to ORE, including when you publish open access on the publisher website.
7. Wellcome Trust funded monographs and book chapters must be uploaded to PubMed Bookshelf.

Upon publication

1. Read the Research Dissemination guidance on the RIME Sharepoint site.
2. Promote your work using social media.
3. If you published open access, you can share a link your work on the publisher website, confident that anybody that wishes to read it can do so, without having to log in or pay.
4. If you did not publish open access, you can share a link to the copy you uploaded to ORE.
5. If your accepted manuscript in ORE is under a publisher-imposed embargo, others can request to read your work using "request a copy". Consider giving "blanket permissions" so we can share a copy every time it's requested without additional steps.