The University of Manchester 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 as open access on IEEE Xplore.

In addition, UKRI-funded authors can self-archive their accepted manuscripts that were submitted to any of the subscription-based IEEE journals, magazines, or conference proceedings, in compliance with the UKRI open access policy via the UKRI Route 2 option.

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