Award frequently asked questions

All research papers that have been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal and are supported in whole or in part by the Award should be made freely available within 6 months of publication. If the article is not added automatically by the publisher, it is the researcher’s responsibility to upload it. This applies to any publication resulting from the funded research, both during and after the period of funding.

Yorkshire Cancer Research is a funder of Europe PubMed Central, as such there are no additional costs for Award holders depositing a manuscript in the Europe PMC repository to meet the above criteria. Find out more about how to deposit your publication (Europe PMC).

The Charity encourages the use of the CC-BY license for all journal publications. Where an open access fee has been paid to a journal the author of the manuscript must apply a CC-BY licence and the following phrase shall be inserted into the manuscript “For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission”.

Read more information on CC-BY licences here.