Publication Scheme

(The information on this page is currently under review for future update - as at February/March 2021)

FoI logo The Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires the University to adopt a Publication Scheme. This is a guide to information routinely held and made available to the public. From 1 January 2009 the University and its wholly owned companies have adopted the Model Publication Scheme produced by the Information Commissioner. Guides to Information have been produced in accordance with the Information Commissioner's Definition Document for Universities and Definition Document for Wholly Owned Companies and are available below in PDF format. Please contact foi@sussex.ac.uk if you have any questions.

The Guide to Information for the University of Sussex is also set out in full below.

Guide to information

Introduction

This Guide is produced in accordance with the Model Publication Scheme produced by the Information Commissioner and adopted by the University from 1 January 2009. The Guide is intended as a summary of where the classes and sub-classes of information covered by the Publication Scheme (as outlined in the Information Commissioner's Definition Document for Universities) may be accessed.
The Guide does not list individual publications covered by the Publication Scheme, because these will change as new material is published or existing material is revised. The Guide will be reviewed and monitored regularly to ensure that it is up-to-date.
Information in the Scheme will only be published when it has been approved by the highest relevant University authority. Information about the University is also published by HEFCE, HESA and the QAA. The University will not routinely publish in this Scheme any information that it considers exempt under one of the exemptions in Part II of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or one of the exceptions in Part 3 of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, unless there is a legal obligation to do so.
The University is committed whenever possible to publishing on its website, where information covered by the Publication Scheme can be accessed free of charge. Where this is not possible, requests for information covered by the Publication Scheme should be directed to the Information Officer. (The Information Officer should also be contacted in the first instance about requests for information not covered by the Publication Scheme. Such requests will be considered in accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.)

Information Management Team
Sussex House
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9RH

foi@sussex.ac.uk

Where information covered by the Publication Scheme cannot be published online or otherwise supplied free of charge (e.g. by email), or where the requester's preference is for hard copies to be supplied, the University reserves the right to charge for disbursements (printing, photocopying and postage costs) and, where applicable, to charge the cover price of any commercial publication. The University will always inform the requester of any charges to be levied. The University may ask for payment before the information is provided. Charges for information covered by the Publication Scheme are separate from the fees that may be charged following Freedom of Information requests for information not covered by the Publication Scheme.
The University (along with any third parties, where appropriate) retains the copyright in material that it publishes on the website or which it provides (in whatever form) in response to an individual request. Use of copyright works must be only as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and, save where permitted under that Act, such material must not be copied, distributed, modified, reproduced, transmitted, published (including published on the Internet or an intranet), or otherwise made available in whole or in part without the prior written consent of the copyright holder.

Classes of information

A. WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO

A1. Legal framework.

A2. How the institution is organised.

A3. Location and contact details.

A4. Lists of and information relating to organisations which the university has responsibility for, those it works in partnership with, those it sponsors and companies wholly owned by it.

A5. Student activities.