Articles and conference papers | Open Access Oxford

Articles, conference papers and other peer-reviewed short-form research outputs are some of the items that are most commonly published open access.

This page includes a step-by-step guide to publishing these outputs open access, along with the resources to help you do so.

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Key information – read this first
Step-by-step guide
Funders with open access policies on journal articles and conference papers

1. Identify where to publish

Use 'Think. Check. Submit' to assess the relevant journals and choose which is most suitable.

Go to Think. Check. Submit.

2. Check any policy requirements

If you receive funding for your research, you will need to comply with your funder’s requirements for open access. (You may also find that they will give you the funding for open access publishing.)

If you don’t receive funding, there will still be policies you need to be aware of.

Whether or not you are funded, you will need to comply with the University's publication policy. You may also be subject to the REF, so check its policy too.

Check your policy requirements

3. Use Sherpa Romeo to assess the open access routes available to you

Sherpa Romeo is an online service that helps you to check which open access route or model your chosen journal will allow.

Use Sherpa to check the open access route

4. Submit your manuscript

Send your article or conference paper to the publisher. Remember to use your Oxford email (ox.ac.uk) during the submission process.

Tip: If you have an Oxford-registered ORCID this process might be simplified, because logging in using your ORCID often auto-populates the form.

Oxford University ORCID site

5. Pay any fees

When your article is accepted, you may have to pay a fee to the publisher (an ‘article processing charge’). This will depend on their open access route/model:

If the journal is diamond/platinum, there will be no charge.
If the journal is fully gold you may have to pay a charge (you can find out on Sherpa Romeo).
If the journal is hybrid you will have to pay a charge to make your work open in the journal itself. But you can also make your work open access (at no cost) using the 'green' open access deposit method via the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA).

Paying for open access

6. Congratulations! Your work is now open access

Depending on the journal's open access allowances, either:

The journal itself has made the work open (gold/platinum/paid hybrid), or
The hybrid journal is paywalled but you have made the work open access by depositing using the 'green route'.

Deposit your work into ORA