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If your research is funded, make sure that you include the funder's name and full grant number in the manuscript acknowledgements and a data statement at the bottom of the manuscript.
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Email openaccess@strath.ac.uk if you are submitting to a Springer, ACS, Wiley, Sage, Cambridge, IoP, RSC or Oxford journal, so that the Open Access team can check the potential eligibility of your research output for these Read and Publish deals.
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If you are funded by the Wellcome Trust, you must apply a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) to all Author Accepted Manuscripts arising from submissions to peer-reviewed journals that report original research. If you allow others to own copyright in AAMs, you must ensure that they apply the CC BY licence to all future submissions. As a Wellcome Trust funded author, you must include the following text in all submissions:
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'This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Wellcome Trust [Grant Number xxxxx]. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.'
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Submit the manuscript to your chosen publication, following the publisher's guidance. Publishers will typically ask you to submit your manuscript via their own manuscript submission system, often using an in-house template.
