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Publishing research

Funder policies

To comply with the Wellcome Trust Open Access (OA) policy, when publishing your research, please make sure that:
- The Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is made freely available from EuropePMC upon publication (Wellcome does not allow any embargo!)
- The manuscript is available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence
- The manuscript includes a data availability statement

When publishing in a fully open-access journal (the Gold OA route), the Article Processing Charge (APC) will be covered by Wellcome. You can check whether the journal is fully open-access here.

Wellcome does not cover APCs for publishing open-access in hybrid journals. If you wish to publish in a hybrid journal, you can choose the OA Green Route:
- publish in a hybrid journal as a subscription-only manuscript (which does not usually carry any charges)
- at the same time, deposit the AAM in an open-access repository under a CC-BY license (you have to deposit it in EuroPMC, but you can also deposit it in Oxford’s own ORA).

You need to make sure that the University has an agreement with your chosen hybrid journal that lifts any embargo on the publication - the open-access AAM has to be available immediately.

The University’s block grant can only cover hybrid APCs if your research is funded by CRUK or British Heart Foundation. You can find more information on Oxford's OA policy and cost covering here.

If you have a question about complying with Wellcome's OA policy, you can ask the Oxford University OA Helpdesk.

This tool is a quick and easy way to check how you can comply with your funder's policies.

Here are useful summaries of Wellcome's and NIHR's publishing policies (Oxford SSO required to view):

Required acknowledgements and checks

Before submitting a manuscript for publication ensure that
- relevant affiliations are listed; typically
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6GG,UK
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK

  • all grants relevant grants are acknowledged, e.g.
  • Wellcome Trust Discovery Award (grant number 227420)

  • This research was supported by the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR203316). The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. The Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging was supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust (203139/Z/16/Z and 203139/A/16/Z).

  • all authors on the paper must have approved on the manuscript - please see OxCIN authorship guidelines

Publication database

Publications are maintained in the Symplectic database. This is being used for the REF as well as the publications listed on your university profile are from Symplectic.

Advertising new publications

  • Make announcement on group mailing list
  • Add on news blog with figure on www.neuosc.com
  • Advertise on BlueSky and LinkedIn
  • Upload paper on https://plus.europepmc.org/home (this is a Wellcome requirement)

For high impact papers notify:
- EP: news@psy.ox.ac.uk and pa@psy.ox.ac.uk (Alice Watson), and hanna.smyth@psy.ox.ac.uk
- Psychiatry: comms@psych.ox.ac.uk; lisa.jones@psych.ox.ac.uk
- OxCIN: iske.bakker@ndcn.ox.ac.uk
- St Catz: katie.stfrancis@stcatz.ox.ac.uk (Katie St. Francis | Alumni Relations & Events Officer)

Poster and abstract submission

Before submitting an abstract or presenting a poster ensure that
- all relevant affiliations are listed; typically
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6GG,UK
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA), Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN), Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK

  • all grants relevant grants are acknowledged, e.g.
  • Wellcome Trust Discovery Award (grant number 227420)

  • This research was supported by the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR203316). The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. The Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging was supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust (203139/Z/16/Z and 203139/A/16/Z).

  • all authors have approved on the abstract and poster

  • Upload pre-print on bioRxiv.org and advertise