Open access
The SLSA Board has an active Open Access Working Group to keep a watching brief on developments in this constantly changing area. The Working Group will be closely following UKRI announcements on this issue post REF-2021 and where appropriate will liaise with the SLSA Board regarding future advice and guidance for SLSA members. Members will be kept informed about the Working Group's activities via the Socio-Legal Newsletter, the weekly SLSA ebulletin and the SLSA blog where appropriate.
Below, members will find a number of links to OA resources and advice currently available. If you know of any other useful links that could be included on this page, please contact
- Research funders' policies and guidance
- UK Universities: policies and guidance
- Blogs, websites and advice
- General resources
Research funders' policies and guidance
- British Academy
- European Research Council
- UK Research and Innovation: updated on 24 May 2023
Overview of update guidance
Publishing your research findings: Making your monograph, book chapter or edited collection open access
UKRI open access policy
UKRI open access funding
FAQs - UK Parliament: Open Access: Responses to the Committee's Fifth Report of Session 2013-14 - Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
- Wellcome Trust
UK Universities: policies and guidance
- Aberystwyth University
- Anglia Ruskin
- Birkbeck
- Birmingham
- Bournemouth
- Cardiff University
- De Montfort University
- Durham University
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Imperial College London
- Keele University
- King’s College London
- Lancaster University
- Leeds Becket
- London School of Economics
- Loughborough University
- Middlesex University
- Newcastle University
- Northumbria University
- Nottingham Trent
- Open University
- Oxford Brookes University
- Queen Mary University of London
- Queen’s University Belfast
- Royal Holloway University of London
- School of Advanced Study, University of London
- Sheffield Hallam University
- SOAS University of London
- Swansea University
- University College London
- University of Aberdeen
- University of Bristol
- University of Cambridge
- University of Dundee
- University of East Anglia
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Essex
- University of Exeter
- University of Glasgow
- University of Hull
- University of Kent
- University of Leeds
- University of Leicester
- University of Liverpool
- University of Nottingham
- University of Manchester
- University of Oxford
- University of Reading
- University of Southampton
- University of Sheffield
- University of Southampton
- University of Stirling
- University of Strathclyde
- University of Surrey
- University of Sussex
- University of St Andrews
- University of Westminster
- University of Worcester
- University of York
- Warwick University
JISC
- OpenDOAR: enables the identification, browsing and search for repositories
- SHERPA FACT: checks if compliance with funder open access policies can be achieved with a particular journal
- SHERPA REF helps authors and institutions decide whether a journal allows them to comply with the OA REF policy
- SHERPA Romeo: enables researchers and librarians to see publishers’ conditions for open access archiving on a journal-by-journal basis
Blogs, websites and advice
- Australasian Open Access Strategy Group Blog
- British Library Science Team: Open Access Blog
- Cardiff University Open Access Blog
- De Gruyter Open Access Blog
- DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals): News, updates and developments
- Jisc Scholarly Communications: OA Digest
- LSE Impact Blog: Open Access
- Official PLOS Blog
- Open Access and Digital Scholarship Blog, Imperial College London
- Open Access Blog, Edinburgh Napier
- Open Access Directory
- Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Blog
- Open and Shut? Richard Poynder Blog
- OpenEdition: Open Access Blog
- Queen’s University Belfast: Open Access FAQs and Blogs
- Springer Open Blog
- UA Foundation: Open Access Blog
- UCL Blogs: Open Access
- Universities UK Open Access Coordination Group
General resources