Grantholders e-newsletter
Special edition: OA Day - October 2008
Open Access Day is designed to increase awareness and understanding of the value and benefits of open access. This e-newsletter special is to highlight this day, to update you on recent developments and to provide information to help you comply with Wellcome Trust open access grant conditions.
Contents
3. Nature Publishing Group launch manuscript deposition service
5. Further information and help
1. Policy summary
Grantholders are reminded that all research papers funded in whole or in part by the Wellcome Trust must be made freely accessible through PubMed Central (PMC) and UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) as soon as possible, and in any event within six months of publication.
An overview of how researchers can comply with our policy is available as a PDF: Open Access - Complying with the Wellcome Trust grant requirements.
Further information can be found in the Authors’ guide and FAQ, including details of how the Trust will meet the open access publishing costs where required.
2. Overwhelming majority of journals used by Wellcome grantholders have a compliant OA publishing policy
A recent analysis of papers published by Wellcome-funded authors shows that 94 per cent of these articles were published in a journal which had a publishing policy that was fully compliant with our grant conditions.
As an author it is your responsibility to ensure that the paper is made available in UKPMC. For some journals you will need to select the "author-pays" option. In other cases you will need to archive the author manuscript directly in UKPMC.
To help understand how to comply when publishing in different journals we have produced an A-Z list of those journals most frequently used by Wellcome grantholders.
For each journal entry, we summarise the publisher OA policy and indicate what steps you need to take to ensure that the article is made available through UKPMC.
If the journal where you are seeking to publish is not included in this list, please either consult the Sherpa/RoMEO database or contact us directly: openaccess@wellcome.ac.uk.
3. Nature Publishing Group launch manuscript deposition service
If you have a research paper published in Nature or any of the Nature research journals (e.g. Nature Immunology, Nature Genetics), then Nature Publishing Group will deposit the author manuscript directly into UKPMC on your behalf. No fee will be charged for this service.
Further information can be found at the Nature Publishing Group website.
4. Open access videos
The Open Access Day website includes a number of short videos where key members of the research community - including a teacher, a librarian, a researcher, a patient advocate, and a funder - will speak on why open access matters.
Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, is interviewed for this event. In this short video Dr Walport argues that providing free online access to research findings is the most effective way of ensuring that the research we fund can be accessed, read and built upon.
5. Further information and help
Visit our website for further information on our open access policy and compliance. Alternatively email openaccess@wellcome.ac.uk.