Open Access: What you need to know — MSD Newsletters

"From April 2016, researchers must take additional action on acceptance of papers to be eligible for the next REF. Even researchers accustomed to meeting the open access requirements of funders e.g. the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils, will have to take special, additional action (at the time of the acceptance of the manuscript) for every research output that they produce. Non-compliance will render outputs ineligible for the REF. Non-compliance at the time of paper acceptance cannot be made to be compliant later. Please read on to find out about (i) HEFCE’s Open Access policy for next REF (ii) Oxford’s response and action required by authors (iii) the OA policies of major funders ..."