Open Access Process at Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth University Research and Innovation Committee and Executive group have agreed that where possible, all new Journal contributions, including Conference Proceedings, should be made available via the Green open access route by depositing a post-print of your paper into PURE at the point of acceptance.

Open Access and PURE submission policy

Author’s guide

1. At submission
   • Add a Rights Retention Statement to your submitted draft.
   • Create a PURE record for your submission and attach the manuscript.
   • At this point you may also need to create and link a dataset record within PURE to this submission.
     • See our PURE information page for guidance.

2. At acceptance
   • Within 1-month of acceptance you need to deposit your post-print/author’s accepted manuscript/AAM into PURE with a CC BY licence. This will fulfil any funder requirement for deposit within an institutional repository (if the work was funded then check if they have any additional requirements).
3. At publication
   • If your article is published Gold open access, deposit the publisher’s version into PURE.