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 the Creative Commons Attribution licence (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

If your journal does not comply through Gold/fully open access, use rights retention. Under UCL’s updated Publications Policy, authors publishing in subscription journals outside UCL’s transformative agreements can still meet Parkinson's UK requirements:

• Accepted manuscripts can be made open access immediately in UCL Discovery and Europe PMC, without an embargo, under the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY).
• Upload the accepted manuscript to UCL’s Research Publications Service (RPS) and Europe PMC on or before publication. Set the embargo period in Europe PMC to zero, when you upload.
• Research degree students publishing without a UCL staff co-author are not currently covered by rights retention. They must include the required statement at submission, as set out in the Rights Retention Support Pages.

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. Contact UCL's Open Access Team for further advice.