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RE: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

Re: Sally's comment that the Wellcome Trust "appears to be inciting (nay,
forcing) its researchers to breach the terms of the contracts some of them
they may have signed with publishers."

The simple fact is that the Trust's grant conditions apply to researchers
and their institutions long before any subsequent decisions are taken
about where to publish the results or what the copyright arrangements for
publication may be.  It is not possible to breach the terms of contracts
that do not yet exist: in what way, therefore, is the Trust forcing its
researchers to breach copyright agreements?

Robert Kiley

Head of Systems Strategy & Acting Librarian
Wellcome Library.
210, Euston Road, London. NW1 2BE
Tel: 020 7611 8338; Fax: 020 7611 8726; mailto:r.kiley@wellcome.ac.uk
Library Web site: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk