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Choose where to publish

• Check your school or faculty publication strategy for guidance.
• Use the  to evaluate whether or not a publisher is suitable for your research.
• Read the scope of the journal or book publisher and any author guidelines.

Check if your publication has open access requirements

• The university and research funders have open access policies, and you should ensure you understand those relevant to you.

Check your options to make the publication open access

• The university has a non-commercial institutional repository to facilitate open access to the author accepted manuscripts deposited in it, also known as ‘green open access’ or ‘author self archiving’. The repository applies CC-BY licence terms to deposits unless an alternative licence is required by the rights-holder. Check the embargo and licence requirements of your publication venue using the and include this information in your deposit. Taking these steps will enable fee-free open access wherever it's feasible to do so.
• The university financially supports several open access publishing agreements for journal articles and books.
• The university has access to funder grants which can pay publishing fees in fully open access venues.
• Select the option which enables you to meet the open access policy requirements relevant to you. If you are unsure about how to make your publication open access, ask Libraries by completing the .
• Request open access funding where appropriate by completing the funding application form.
• Visit the UoN Libraries Open Access webpages for information and guidance

Agree the order of co-authors, and how other contributors will be acknowledged

• The UoN authorship guidance and section 5 of the require that contributions of all members of the research team must be properly recognised, including students, technical staff and individuals staffing core facilities.
• Authorship should be restricted to those who have made a significant intellectual or practical contribution to the work.

Deposit the data underpinning your publication in an for preservation, aiming to make your data openly available wherever practical, following the university’s .

• Refer to your project’s data management plan, your journal’s data policy and your funder’s data requirements.

Correctly attribute your work.

• Make sure you acknowledge the university and any research funder(s) in the correct format. Include your ORCID iD and those of your co-authors where possible.

Include a data availability statement.

• This describes and typically includes a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) pointing to the location of the research data in your chosen repository. Doing so aids discoverability and enables your data to be cited as a research output in its own right.

Prepare for open access

• Ensure you have a copy of the author’s accepted manuscript and deposit it in the Research Information System (RIS).

Contact the if you would like advice on how best to publicise your research in the media.

Check that all the details of your publication are correct in RIS

• Email openaccess@nottingham.ac.uk if you need to make any changes.

Share your work

• Update your and any profiles you have on professional networking sites like LinkedIn to include your new publication.
• When linking on social media make sure to use the DOI (digital object identifier). Contact library-researchsupport@nottingham.ac.uk if you have any questions.