Overview
Research performed at ISIS is publicly-funded (unless directly paid for by industry or an overseas partner). The UK Research and Inovation (UKRI) policy on open access applies to publications which acknowledge a UK research council grant or which have a UKRI staff member as an author, which includes ISIS staff.
According to the policy All STFC staff are expected to publish open access their peer-reviewed articles, conference proceedings and, from 01 January 2024, their books, book chapters and edited collections.
What you need to do
Staff and users should comply with the policy where this is possible. We are aware that the situation for papers coming from ISIS is sometimes complex, with work led by overseas researchers who may have different requirements for publications.
We are very keen to monitor the impact of the policy on our user community so we strongly encourage you to
contact us with any issues resulting from implementation of the policy.
Key points
If a publication includes an ISIS staff member as an author, or if the publication acknowledges funding from a UK research council grant, then the UKRI open access policy applies.
All publications must be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY) (excepting when subject to crown copyright), and a CC-BY-ND license in limited cases. Authors should include a set licensing statement in their submitted manuscripts to ensure the publisher is aware of the need to comply with the UKRI policy.
External authors who are unsure about which journals support the UKRI policy should contact their institution's research office or library.
Where funds are not available from a home institution to publish open access in a journal, users should use the green open access route when they deposit the accepted manuscript of the article with CC BY licence in an institutional or subject repository.
If your research team is largely self-sufficient and you do not intend to include your local contact as a co-author on publications, you should discuss this during the experiment.
Your publications from experiments at ISIS should contain an acknowledgement of the support received from ISIS. For example:
“Experiments at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source were supported by beamtime allocation RBXXXXXX from the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Data is available here: https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RBxxxxxx"
Publications must include a data access statement - please include the data DOI provided by ISIS.
When publishing results from your experiments at ISIS, it is expected that you will include your ISIS local contact as a co-author on your papers.
All publications related to experiments carried out at ISIS are obliged to cite data DOIs of the experiments.
Please see the ISIS Data Policy and the use of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) created for ISIS data.
Please send information on your publications to the ISIS Impact Team.
Useful links
UKRI open access announcement
Sherpa RoMEO database: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
