Stakeholders from across the Higher Education sector require research to be made available Open Access.

The University of Sunderland Open Access Mandate outlines the requirement that all staff must make articles and conference papers published under and ISSN freely available in SURE on acceptance for publication. 

The UKRI Open Access Policy applies to authors in receipt of funding from them, and requires that authors add their outputs to SURE immediately upon publication. This includes both journal articles and long-form publications (monographs, book chapters and edited collections).

The Open Access requirements for REF2029 will be published in Autumn 2024, but they will almost certainly align with the University Mandate, and the UKRI Policy.

The following funding bodies also have Open Access or Open Science (Open Research) requirements:

• Diabtes UK: Grant policies
• European Research Council: Open Science
• Horizon Europe: Open Science in Horizon Europe
• Leverhulme Trust
• NIH: Public Access Policy
• NIHR:  Open Access Publication Policy
• Royal Society: Grant Policies and positions
• Wellcome: Open Access Policy

Always check your funder's open access requirements before choosing where to publish.