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Check publisher and funder policies, explore open-access requirements and identify transformative agreements.
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Open Access (OA) makes research publications freely available for anyone to read and reuse online.
Open Access can increase the visibility, readership and citation of your research. It is also a requirement of many research funders. Always check your funder's requirements before publishing.
The main routes are:
Green Open Access is the University's preferred route. It involves depositing your Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in TeesRep, usually following a publisher embargo period. There are no publication costs.
An embargo is a period during which an Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) cannot be made openly available in a repository such as TeesRep. Once the embargo ends, the manuscript can be made openly available.
Gold Open Access makes the final published version of a research output immediately available online, usually under a Creative Commons licence and often requiring an Article Processing Charge (APC).
Diamond Open Access is free for both authors and readers. Publication costs are covered by institutions or organisations.
Article Processing Charges (APCs) cover the cost of publishing Open Access journal articles. Book Processing Charges (BPCs) are similar fees for publishing Open Access books and book chapters.
No central fund is available for APCs or BPCs. The University's preferred routes are Green Open Access and transformative agreements.
Transformative agreements allow Teesside University authors to publish Open Access in participating journals without paying APCs.
Rights Retention allows authors to retain rights to their Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) and make it immediately Open Access under a CC BY licence.
An AAM is the final version of a research paper after peer review and revisions, but before publisher formatting and typesetting.
From 1 September 2025, Teesside University authors must deposit their AAM in TeesRep under a CC BY licence.
Include the following statement when submitting your manuscript:
'For the purpose of Open Access, the author(s) has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.'
You can request a partial or full opt-out by contacting openaccess@tees.ac.uk. Please note this may affect funder or REF compliance.
TeesRep is Teesside University's institutional repository for Open Access research outputs.
Add your research output through the University Research Portal (Pure). All Teesside University staff and research students are required to add their research outputs to TeesRep via Pure.
A preprint is an early version of a scholarly article shared before peer review.
Preprints can increase visibility, enable early feedback and establish research priority.
Open Access focuses on making publications freely available. Open Research covers the wider research lifecycle, including data, methods, software, peer review and publications.
Open Research improves transparency, reproducibility and public access to research.
Most Open Access outputs use Creative Commons licences, particularly CC BY.
You must obtain permission for third-party content included in both the published version and the Open Access AAM.
You may remove, replace or tombstone the content, or request an opt-out from the Rights Retention Policy. Tombstoning removes content while leaving a notice that it previously existed.
Use tools such as Think. Check. Submit., review peer-review processes and avoid journals with unclear fees or unrealistic publication timescales.
Email openaccess@tees.ac.uk, attend ENRICH sessions or consult the Library's Open Access and Open Research guides.
For further guidance, visit the Open Access publishing support pages.