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The University’s Â鶹ÊÓƵ Publications and Copyright Policy applies to all scholarly articles and conference proceedings published by University of Sheffield researchers and PGRs. The policy enables authors to control copyright to their own publications, apply a CC BY licence to them and make them available via White Rose Â鶹ÊÓƵ Online (WRRO) without embargo. You can find a link to the policy and more guidance on how to comply on our Copyright pages. 

Although the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Publications and Copyright Policy does not currently apply to monographs, scholarly editions, textbooks, book chapters, collections of essays, datasets, software, or other outputs that are not scholarly articles, the University strongly encourages researchers to make such works as openly available as possible, bearing in mind confidentiality and obligations to third parties such as commercial research partners. Â鶹ÊÓƵ Statement on Open Â鶹ÊÓƵ, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Data Management Policy and Open Educational Resources Policy (under Intellectual Property) outline expectations for researchers in these areas.

The University also requires all doctoral theses to be submitted electronically to the University's repository White Rose eTheses Online (WREO). If possible, the full text of the thesis will then be made available open access via WREO and the British Library's EthOS repository.

Strategic leadership for the University’s open access policies is provided by the Open Â鶹ÊÓƵ Advisory Group ().

Please note, University of Sheffield researchers may also need to comply with the REF open access policy, and policies set by external funders such as UKRI, the Wellcome Trust, NIHR and the EU. For more information, see the following links:

• Funder open access policies