You need to ...

• Comply with OA policies if you’re submitting articles/proceedings to the REF2021
• Submit the Author’s Accepted Manuscript via Symplectic Elements
• Ensure that your manuscript is uploaded no later than three months after it is accepted.  Ideally you should upload your manuscript or contact the Open Access Team, before signing a Copyright Transfer Agreement or choosing an Open Access option on the journal website. If you need to pick an open access option or sign a copyright form when you submit your paper to a journal upload your paper at that point and tell the OA Team it has not been accepted yet.

For further help and support see the OA webpages or email the OA Team (info@openaccess.cam.ac.uk) and if you're interested in reading more about this subject see the Unlocking Research blog.

Does the Faculty of Education have an institutional repository and can I use it to deposit a copy of my eventual pdf ebook?

The University's repository is called Apollo and is managed by the Office of Scholarly Communications (OSC).  They should be able to upload your open access ebook into the repository - just email to arrange this (info@openaccess.cam.ac.uk).  Click here for an example.

Once it is uploaded to Apollo, email the Library team (library@educ.cam.ac.uk) and we will ask the University Library to upload a record for it to iDiscover.  Click here for an example.

Would I be able to view access and download figures for the book?

The OSC should record download figures and they will be able to advise you on how they share this information with authors when you contact them.
 

How can I obtain a DOI for the book?

When you deposit your ebook in Apollo, the OSC will assign a DOI.  Click here for further information.

The Campaign to Investigate the Academic Ebook Market is a group of UK based academic librarians, researchers, university lecturers and students advocating for the investigation of pricing and licensing of academic ebooks. They have created a guide advising academics on contract negotiation with publishers. 

View the original post here, view the guide below, or view the guide with clickable links here. 

This work was licensed and shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

The University has created this Copyright for Researchers Guide which focuses on areas of copyright likely to be applicable to Cambridge researchers looking to share their work, including making a PhD thesis available via Open Access.