Manchester Metropolitan University Library has arranged a deposit account with IEEE for a small number of article processing charges (APCs) which can be used to publish research papers in IEEE journals. To check if your paper is eligible for funding please complete an online request form after first consulting with your Associate Dean for Research: http://libguides.mmu.ac.uk/openaccess/apcform.

To make the CC BY license available as quickly as possible under the Route 2 option, IEEE has developed a process that engages authors during their online publication agreement where they may identify themselves as an author with UKRI funding. Upon completion of the copyright agreement, UKRI funded authors will automatically obtain a permission to apply the CC BY license to their accepted manuscript. To further meet the Route 2 requirements, the submissions should include the following text in the funding acknowledgement section of the manuscript and any cover note accompanying the submission:
For the purpose of open access, the author(s) has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to any Accepted Manuscript version arising