{"id":4557,"date":"2017-07-27T09:57:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2017-07-27T09:57:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:57:05","slug":"rcuk-open-access-block-grant-extended-to-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/2017\/07\/27\/rcuk-open-access-block-grant-extended-to-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"RCUK Open Access Block Grant Extended to 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research Councils UK (RCUK) have confirmed that the open access block grant will continue for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Queen&#8217;s receives an open access grant allocation from the RCUK twice a year. \u00a0The funds<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/07\/RCUK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4555\" alt=\"RCUK\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2017\/07\/RCUK-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>are made available to support universities in meeting the requirements of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcuk.ac.uk\/research\/openaccess\/policy\/\">RCUK Open Access Policy<\/a>, in particular meeting the cost of article processing charges (APC) to make articles \u2018gold\u2019 open access through the publisher.<\/p>\n<p>If you have received RCUK funding and are publishing in a fully open access journal you should contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:openaccess@qub.ac.uk?subject=RCUK%20Funding\">openaccess@qub.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0before submission to ensure there are sufficient funds to cover the cost of your article processing charge (APC).<\/p>\n<p>For further information on \u2018gold\u2019 open access please visit the open access\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libguides.qub.ac.uk\/c.php?g=322847&amp;p=2208007\">LibGuide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Councils UK (RCUK) have confirmed that the open access block grant will continue for the next two years. Queen&#8217;s receives an open access grant allocation from the RCUK twice a year. \u00a0The funds are made available to support universities &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/2017\/07\/27\/rcuk-open-access-block-grant-extended-to-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-updates","tag-open-access"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XNlm-1bv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}