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UWE, Bristol has arranged pre-payment to IEEE for a small number of article processing charges (APCs). The APCs can be used to publish RCUK funded research papers in IEEE journals. To check if your paper is eligible for funding please contact the Library’s Research Support Team at lib.rke@uwe.ac.uk.

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