[Astro] Publishing in MNRAS - new procedure to pay article processing charges

[Alfonso Aragon-salamanca (staff)]

Frazer,

Quick replies to your questions – sending them to everybody since they may be useful.

If anybody has any more questions please ask them directly to me and do not cc everybody (to avoid spam).


  *   This says ‘requested’. Is the expectation that the payment will be automatically agreed?

My understanding is that it will be agreed while the funds last. In the past, the fund has been underspent. That is all the information I have.


  *   When in the process should this request be made (and agreed)? Before submission or after acceptance?

After acceptance, I think.


  *   When does this start (I.e. what about papers currently being refereed)?

I think this starts for any APC due from January 1st, but if you have a paper being refereed at the moment, please contact me.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes,

Alfonso


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From: Frazer Pearce (staff) <frazer.pearce at nottingham.ac.uk>
Sent: 15 December 2025 08:54
To: Alfonso Aragon-salamanca (staff) <alfonso.aragon at nottingham.ac.uk>
Cc: astro at nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Astro] Publishing in MNRAS - new procedure to pay article processing charges

Thanks Alfonso,

A couple of quick questions for clarity (don’t know is fine, obviously the outlook is disastrous if this continues post next-August, but let’s face that later);

This says ‘requested’. Is the expectation that the payment will be automatically agreed?

When in the process should this request be made (and agreed)? Before submission or after acceptance?

When does this start (I.e. what about papers currently being refereed)?

Kind regards,
Frazer


On 15 Dec 2025, at 08:38, Alfonso Aragon-salamanca (staff) <alfonso.aragon at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:alfonso.aragon at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:


Dear all,

The UoN will not be renewing some of the current read-and-publish agreements, including the one with Oxford University Press, which publishes MNRAS.

This means that from January 2026 the procedure to cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for MNRAS papers will change. Funding for APCs for UKRI-funded research can be requested from the Institutional block grant, administered by the University (see https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/research/open-access/requesting-oa-funding/funding.aspx). Note that, currently, all our research is at least partially funded by UKRI since we all use Phil Parry’s computing support, and he is funded by UKRI. Please make sure you acknowledge the Nottingham Astronomy consolidated grant in your paper and quote it in your request (of course, if you have additional UKRI funding, you should also acknowledge it). The details of the consolidated grant are:

Ref: ST/X000982/1
TITLE: Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Nottingham - 2023 to 2026
PI: Simon Dye

If you have any questions or want to discuss this with me, please come and see me or send me a message.

Annoyinly, this requires a bit more work than before, but hopefully, things will go back to normal in the future.

Best wishes,

Alfonso


Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca
Professor of Astronomy

School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nottingham
Room B106b, Centre for Astronomy and Particle Theory
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

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