Get ready for REF

Published: 22 February 2016

To be eligible for submission to the next REF, the final peer-reviewed manuscript of your journal and conference papers accepted after 1 April 2016 must have been deposited in an institutional or subject repository.

We don’t know all the rules of the next REF but we do know one thing:

To be eligible for submission to the next REF, the final peer-reviewed manuscript of your journal and conference papers accepted after 1 April 2016 must have been deposited in an institutional or subject repository.

Ensure your paper is eligible for the next REF.

What do I need to do?
Simply forward your acceptance email to research-openaccess@glasgow.ac.uk as soon as you receive it. The Library will do the rest.

Find out more by visiting:

Library Open Access team

HEFCE Policy 

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First published: 22 February 2016