Re: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

Dear Robert,

This is a most helpful clarification, which, I am sure, will be welcomed
by the academic community. I do hope the gist of it will be included in
the instructions on your site. Indeed I am puzzled that it has not always
been there because this is really basic information. I have to put in a
qualification here, because, it is my experience, that just because I
personally cannot find the information, it does not mean that it is not
there.

Anthony

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kiley ,Mr Robert" <r.kiley@wellcome.ac.uk>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 10:58 PM
Subject: RE: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

> Anthony
>
> Thanks for your comments - let me try to clarify the Wellcome Trust
> position:
>
> 1. The policy applies to peer-reviewed, original (primary) research
> publications that have been supported, in whole or in part, by the
> Wellcome Trust.  The "final manuscript of an author's research paper" is
> the final version that is accepted for journal publication, and includes
> all modifications from the publishing peer review process in a final
> version as edited by the author.  This version may be in, say, a Microsoft
> Word or Word Perfect format.  This is the minimum standard that is
> acceptable to fulfil the Wellcome Trust Grant Conditions.
>
> However, authors should note that journals' own SGML/XML and PDF versions
> would be the preferred version to be deposited, where authors' agreements
> with journals allow this.
>
> 2. To this end, we encourage authors to publish their research in open
> access journals, which would allow the deposition of the final journal
> copy edited version in PMC. Articles published in OA journals (for example
> the BMJ or the "author/funder pays") should be made available in PMC at
> the time of publication and in most cases the journal will automatically
> make the deposition into PMC.
>
> 3. In cases where the journal is in a "hybrid mode" - some articles are
> OA, and some are not (e.g. journals in the Springer Open Choice
> programme), we would insist that on those occasions where the Trust had
> met the OA costs, then the final, journal copy-edited version, should be
> deposited in PMC.  In such cases, access to these papers should not be
> embargoed for 6 months.
>
> Robert
>
> Robert Kiley
> Head of Systems Strategy & Acting Librarian
> Wellcome Library.
> Library Web site: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk