Open Access and Depositing your Research: Using Creative Commons Licences

Where the RCUK OA block grant is used to pay Article Processing Charges for a paper, the paper must be made Open Access immediately at the time of on-line publication, using the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. Find out more in the UKRI research policy.

For all other material: Use the Creative Commons tool to choose your licence.

The OAPEN-UK project published two guides based on a thematic analysis of the evidence given to the House of Commons and House of Lords inquiries  and the responses to the HEFCE consultation on open access (Crossick, G., 2015. Monographs and Open Access: a report to HEFCE).

• Guide for Authors

  Guide to Creative Commons for Humanities and Social Science Monograph Authors

  This guide is endorsed by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Creative Commons (and checked by a lawyer).  Although it relates to monographs, the same arguments apply for all publication types.

• Guide for Researchers

  Guide to open access monograph publishing for arts, humanities and social science researchers

  Both guides are CC-BY

  

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When you come across work that uses Creative Commons, you will see the distinctive Creative Commons logo (as below) and there will be a link to the licence under which it has been released. This tells you exactly what you are allowed to do with it.