RE: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

[JOHANNES VELTEROP <velteropvonleyden@btinternet.com>]

In response to point 3 in Robert Kiley's message, I can confirm that the
Springer Open Choice articles are full open access, according to the
definition as given in e.g. the Berlin Declaration and Bethesda Statement.
This means that there is no embargo and that the final, copy-edited and
published version will be immediately available with full open access and
that they can be deposited in PubMed Central, and other repositories if so
desired, without delay.

The Springer Open Choice option is available for more than 1200 Springer
journals, not just for the biomedical ones, but for journals in all
disciplines in which Springer publishes.

Jan Velterop
Director of Open Access
Springer
jan.velterop@springer.com

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"Kiley ,Mr Robert" <r.kiley@wellcome.ac.uk> wrote:
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