Exceptions towards the REF policy

Contact the Open Access Team to go over specific documents.

If you joined up with UCL from another British college, and there’s hardly any other author having a UCL affiliation in the paper, the Open Access Team can put on this exclusion in case it is maybe not feasible to find out that the paper complies utilizing the REF open access policy. Contact the Open Access Team to go over specific documents.

If you cannot get your last accepted manuscript inside the necessary duration (see whenever can I upload to RPS?), this exception may use. You should make all reasonable efforts to get hold of the manuscript from the corresponding author, from your other co-authors, or from the publisher if you are not the corresponding author. Contact the Open Access Team to go over specific papers.

Where you will find appropriate barriers to making a manuscript available access through a repository, or perhaps the author’s identification has to be protected (because depositing the paper would put the writer or the organization at an increased risk), these exceptions may use. Contact the Open Access Team to go over specific documents.

Many journals are compliant using the policy. Where a log doesn’t comply, given that it will not enable access that is open a repository within one year (REF panels A and B) or 24 months (REF panels C and D) of book, or does not enable available access in a repository at all, the writer is motivated to consider posting in an alternative solution journal.