Support for Open Access at UCL

These pages are designed to help UCL researchers better understand publishing with open access.

Understanding open access

If you are new to open access, visit our Understanding open access page for a brief summary of open access publishing and its benefits, including descriptions of the main routes (Green and Gold OA), and a video introduction.

Glossary

Our open access glossary explains commonly used terms (e.g. author accepted manuscript, Creative Commons licences, transformative agreement, institutional repository, predatory publisher).

FAQs

Our FAQs answer questions related to the REF and UKRI policies, using RPS, and open access for staff at UCL's partner NHS trusts.

Research

See the UCL Publications Policy support pages for UCL's position on open access and authors' rights in research outputs, and what UCL researchers are required to do about OA.

If you are looking for resources on finding open access research, visit our Finding open access research page.

NHS staff

Information on open access for members of staff at UCL's NHS partner trusts is on our Open access for NHS staff page.

Contact us

Contact the Open Access Team if you cannot find the answer to your open access query.