Setting up an Institutional Fund

Bill Hubbard

Head of Centre for Research CommunicationsUniversity of Nottingham

Compliance and Support

•Academic researchers need clarity•Funders need compliance•Institutions need clear funding routes•Policies and publicity should alert researchers totheir responsibilities under funder mandates•Policies and publicity should reassure researchersthat OA costs will be met•Support systems should be in place to help -andmonitor compliance•A central OA Fund can help address this

Research Income and OA fees

•Direct costs:

–Research grants can be used to fund OA fees during thelife-time of a grant –Researchers need to be encouraged to build this into theirgrant applications

•Indirect costs:

–Overheads claimed by the institution can also include OAfee costs –Funds need to be identifiable & accessible to researchers –Costs need to be built into institutional overhead costingmodels