Save the version of the manuscript which incorporates all changes following the peer review process, before it has been formatted and copy-edited by the publisher. This version is known as the Accepted Author Manuscript (AAM).
If you created a record for the prospective publication in Pure at manuscript submission stage, then you should now update the record to include the full date of manuscript acceptance and upload a full-text copy of the AAM. At this point, the Open Access Team will complete the record with any missing metadata and validate it.
If you have not already created a record of the publication in Pure, you must do so now. Remember to include the full date of manuscript acceptance and to upload a full-text copy of the AAM. The date of acceptance and AAM are necessary to ensure compliance with the REF Open Access policy.
At this stage the publisher will offer you the option to select the most appropriate route to Open Access, 'Gold OA' or 'Green OA'.
If you choose the Green Open Access route, then you do not need to take any further action at this stage. The Open Access team will check each record and apply any applicable embargo to the AAM as per the publisher's policy. Once the embargo period has been defined (if/where applicable), the publication and its associated metadata will be transferred to the Strathprints repository.
If you plan to select the Gold Open Access route, then you should contact the Open Access Team at openaccess@strath.ac.uk to check (if not done so earlier) if the accepted manuscript is eligible for Gold Open Access funding from the library (ideally forwarding the acceptance notice). Once this has been confirmed, you may then select Gold OA for your paper on the publisher's site.
The Open Access team will assess and confirm eligibility for Gold Open Access funding on a case-by-case basis and, where appropriate, arrange for processing of the Article Processing Charge (APC).
The author's accepted manuscript (AAM) is the version of the file of the research output after any peer review comments have been implemented, but before the publisher has added their formatting and copyright.
Following manuscript acceptance, it is likely that you will be asked to sign an agreement with the publisher detailing ownership of copyright and permissions for re-use. Many publishers of traditional subscription journals will require you to transfer copyright to them as a condition of publication. Please read any publication agreement carefully before signing it to ensure that you are happy to accept the terms. If your research is funded and you are subject to research funder Open Access policies, then you should ensure that any agreement that you sign is compliant with these.
You can check details of publisher copyright agreements and permissions via the SHERPA/RoMEO database.
You can retain copyright and choose the conditions under your research is reproduced and re-used by applying a Creative Commons licence to your work. Work published via the gold Open Access route is often published under a Creative Commons licence. There are six different licence types, with the most permissive being the CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) License and most restrictive being the CC-BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives) licence. The licences allow you to specify if you wish your work to be used for commercial purposes and if you require the person re-using your work to share it under the same licence, or if you are happy with derivative works being created from your work.
Please contact the Open Access team at openaccess@strath.ac.uk if you have any questions regarding copyright transfer or permissions.
[some content above is adapted from Secker, J. [n.d.] 'Copyright for Researchers: Creative Commons'. Available at: https://libguides.westminster.ac.uk/copyrightresearchers/creativecommons under a CC BY NC licence (Accessed 6/4/2021)]
