The Library’s Open Access Team has submitted, on behalf of the University, an Article Processing Charges (APCs) expenditure report to Jisc Collections for 2015.
For the last two years Jisc Collections have been working with higher education institutions to collect and openly release article-level data on their APC expenditure.
In 2015 Queen’s University Belfast had a total APC spend of £138,039 which enabled 123 articles by Queen’s authors to be made open access via the gold route. This is a significant increase in both APC spend and the number of articles made open access in comparison to 2014.
The full report can be viewed on Queen’s Research Portal.
If you would like to know if your paper is eligible for Gold Open Access check out our LibGuide or email openaccess@qub.ac.uk.