BU Research Blog

Open access is important for a number of reasons:

• its increases the visibility and accessibility of research
• for funder compliance: many funders, including UKRI (and any of its councils), Wellcome, and the NIHR, have open access policies which require in-scope outputs produced from their grant-funded research to be published open access.
• for REF: to be eligible for submission in REF 2029, journal articles and conference contributions with an ISSN that are published after 1 January 2021 must be made open access.

This page provides an overview of what open access is and how we support researchers at BU to make their outputs open access.

Useful contacts:

BRIAN@bournemouth.ac.uk

BURO@bournemouth.ac.uk

Openaccess@bournemouth.ac.uk