Requesting open access funding

We regret that no central source of University funding exists to pay open access costs, however we administer block grants on behalf of certain funders. 

Please note that open access block grants may not be used to pay Editorial Assessment Charges arising from the Nature journals Guided Open Access initiative. 

UKRI

The University administers an open access block grant on behalf of UKRI. Publications submitted prior to 1 April 2022 are subject to the RCUK open access policy; those submitted on or after 1 April 2022 will need to comply with the new UKRI open access policy.

Depending on the applicable policy, certain costs may or may not be covered. For example:

• The new UKRI policy places restrictions on which hybrid journals are eligible to have open access costs paid from the UKRI block grant;
• page and colour charges cannot be covered for publications in scope of the new UKRI policy;
• open access costs of publications funded by Innovate UK and Research England are covered under the new UKRI policy. 

Wellcome Trust

The University of Nottingham has been awarded a 12-month block grant by Wellcome, with a start date of 1 October 2021.

You can find more details on our Open access policies webpage.

British Heart Foundation

The British Heart Foundation provides the university with a small open access block grant to cover APC payments.

You can find more details on our Open access policies webpage.

To apply for open access funding, please complete our Gold Open Access Funding Form. 

We recommend sending us an initial enquiry beforehand as you may not need to make a formal funding application. The Open Access team will be able to advise you on next steps depending on your funding situation and/or the venue of publication. 

Send us an enquiry about gold open access

If you have any technical problems using the webform or a comment regarding your application, please email us at openaccess@nottingham.ac.uk.

Please provide the following billing information to your publisher:

• Billing address: Open Access Administrator, Research and Innovation, E Floor, Yang Fujia, Jubilee Campus, The University of Nottingham, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB   
• Billing telephone number: 0115 9515151
• Billing email: openaccess@nottingham.ac.uk

Please note we cannot accept invoices which do not have a University of Nottingham billing address.

The University is not tax exempt for open access publication costs. The VAT number is GB 690 391 225.

If the publisher sends the invoice directly to you, please forward it to openaccess@nottingham.ac.uk. It is the responsibility of the author to raise the invoice and ensure it is correct before fowarding to us in a PDF format.

It is vital that you acknowledge your funders in your paper. This is a requirement of UKRI and other funders in order to support data and text mining to ensure compliance with policy and track funded papers. 

Guidance on the required wording is available on the UKRI 'Acknowledging your funding' webpage.

For research funded by a single funding agency, please see the example below:

 ‘This work was supported by [Name of Research Council] [grant number xxxx]’.

For research funded by multiple grants, grant numbers should be separated by comma and space. Where the research was supported by more than one agency, the different agencies should be separated by a semicolon, with 'and' before the final funder. For example:

‘This work was supported by Research Council A [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; Research Council B [grant number zzzz]; and Research Council C [grant number XXXX]’.