Cancer Research UK (CRUK) open access policy

Outputs that need to be open access

  • Journal Articles

Books, Book chapters, Comment pieces, editorials, book reviews and similar articles do not need to be made open access, though in many cases you can still make them open access using the Scholarly Works Policy.

Conference Papers do not need to be made open access to meet CRUK’s requirements but should still be made open access for the REF policy.

Open Access Funding

CRUK do not provide any funding to pay for fully open access journal fees. 

You can use our open access deals to cover the costs of gold open access in hybrid journals at no cost to you.

Instructions

Follow the instructions on our Open Access for Journal Articles page and the Open Access Flowchart (PDF, 168kB) so that either:

  • The final published version is available immediately on publication on the publisher's website with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence, and is available in Europe PubMed Central (EPMC) immediately on publication.

Or

  • The Accepted Manuscript is available in Europe PubMed Central within six months of publication with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence.

If needed, researchers can apply to CRUK to use a CC-BY-ND licence.

While upload of the accepted manuscript to EPMC is sufficient for this policy, we still need a record in Pure immediately on publication for REF and audit purposes.

All articles should include a data access statement.

Additional Resources