UCL's Open Access pages provide information on the benefits and types of Open Access.

Using the deposit form, please provide your own ("depositor") details, basic publication details, and upload your final accepted manuscript (see question 3) and any supplementary files.

Mandatory fields including file upload must be completed in order to deposit. Please note that each file must be no larger than 5MB.

For assistance, please contact the UCL Discovery Plus team.

UCL authors should maintain their publication record and deposit copies of research publications using the RPS system. Further information is available via UCL's Open Access pages.

You can deposit multiple files of up to 5MB each by holding the Ctrl key whilst selecting more than one file. If you need to send files over 5MB, please contact the UCL Discovery Plus team for assistance.

Your 'final accepted manuscript', sometimes referred to as your 'final author version', 'final author manuscript', or 'final manuscript', is the version of your work which:

• has been accepted for publication
• has been peer-reviewed
• is not the final published output

This can often be a Word version of your publication. Most publishers allow this (and only this) version to be made available in an open access repository, sometimes after a delay. The final accepted manuscript is the version that must be uploaded to UCL Discovery.

Contact the UCL Discovery Plus team to find out more.

Most research funders require grant-holders to make their publications open access. Contact the UCL Discovery Plus team for specific advice.

UCL encourages Green open access; limited Gold funds are available for UCL corresponding authors who are full UCL staff or research students. Please see UCL's Open Access web pages for further information.

We will accept past and current publications. If your paper is funded it is usually best to deposit at the time of acceptance or soon after.

No - the UCL Discovery Plus team will check for you, if you simply let us know that the paper has been published. We will then also deposit the published PDF in UCL Discovery.

If your funder requires you to deposit in a subject repository (e.g. Europe PubMed Central), you will need to check that the publisher has done this for you.

Yes - the UCL Discovery Plus team can provide training to suit you, whether you'd like a brief overview in a department meeting or an in-depth workshop focused on a particular research area. Contact us to discuss your requirements.