Parkinson's UK open access policy and funding

Papers funded in whole or in part by Parkinson's UK must meet Parkinson's UK's open access requirements. Find out how to comply, and what funding is available.

The Parkinson's UK open access policy applies to peer-reviewed research papers funded by Parkinson's UK. These outputs must be made open access in Europe PMC within six months of publication. 

Complying with the policy

Gold open access

1. Journals in UCL's transformative agreements are compliant. To use the agreements, the article's corresponding author must be at UCL. Proceed with submission, following the links to publisher instructions in the list of journals in UCL's agreements, and choose CC BY when accepted for publication.
2. Fully open access journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals are compliant. Some fully open access journals are included in UCL's agreements (see above). If your journal is not included in an agreement, it may be eligible for funding via UCL's Open Access Team if it also acknowledges UCL-held Wellcome Trust, UK Research Council (UKRI), CRUK and/or BHF funds.
3. Parkinson's UK grantholders can publish in AMRC Open Research, an open access publishing platform for Parkinson's UK and other member charities.

For other articles, Parkinson's UK encourages grant applicants to include open access costs in their research grant applications. Unspent grant funds may be used for open access; or authors can contact Parkinson's UK to discuss their situation. See the Parkinson's UK open access policy.

Some journals offer a choice of open access licence. Parkinson's UK encourages - and where it pays an open access fee, requires - the CC BY licence. The journal must deposit the final published version of the article in Europe PMC.

Green open access

UCL's updated Publications Policy allows authors publishing in subscription journals not in UCL's transformative agreements to make their articles open access in UCL Discovery and Europe PMC without an embargo, under the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY). Follow the steps on our UCL Publications Policy: actions for authors page, adding a rights retention statement to your paper when you submit, and uploading your accepted manuscript to UCL's Research Publications Service (RPS) on or before publication. You also need to upload the accepted mansucript to Europe PMC, with a 0 embargo. See the UCL Publications Policy support pages for more information.

If you have any queries about rights retention or your journal's policy, or if your journal refuses to allow you to apply the CC BY licence to your accepted manuscript, contact UCL's Open Access Team for advice. Your article can meet Parkinson's UK's open access requirements provided that the journal's embargo on Green open access is no longer than six months.