Re: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

I'd like to ask how the Wellcome Trust feels about the fact that it
appears to be inciting (nay, forcing) its researchers to breach the terms
of the contracts some of them they may have signed with publishers.

Sally

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kiley ,Mr Robert" <r.kiley@wellcome.ac.uk>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:37 PM
Subject: Open access: a must for Wellcome Trust researchers

> The Wellcome Trust has become the first scientific research funder to
> insist that papers emanating from its grant awards are placed in an open
> access repository.
>
> > From the 1st October 2005 it will become a condition of funding, that
> papers will have to be posted on PubMed Central (PMC)- the free-to
> access, life sciences archive developed by the National Institutes of
> Health - and made accessible within 6 months of publication. To
> facilitate this, the Wellcome Trust has - with the help of NIH -
> established a manuscript submission system, through which papers
> accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal can be deposited in
> PMC.
>
> > From the 1st October next year all existing Trust grant holders will
> have to deposit future papers into PubMed Central. This delay will allow
> existing grant holders time to adjust to the new policy and let us know
> what problems - if any - they may experience, affording us time to
> overcome them. During this time the Trust, working in partnership with
> other UK life sciences funders, plans to establish a UK version of
> PubMed
>
> This latest move comes as part of a drive from the UK's biggest medical
> research charity to push forward open access publication of scientific
> literature, making findings freely available to those who want to see
> them.
>
> The Wellcome Trust is the UK's biggest non-governmental funder of
> biomedical research, spending �400 million a year. The work it funds
> results in around 3,500 papers being published annually.
>
> Dr Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, said:
>
> "Digital archives such as PubMed Central add enormous value to research.
> Everyone, everywhere will be able to read the results of the research
> that we fund. PubMed Central provides a link from research to other
> papers and sources of data, and greatly improves the power and
> efficiency of research.
>
> "Digital archives are only as good as the information stored in them.
> That's why we feel it's important to encourage our researchers along
> this path - one I hope others will follow."
>
> Further details can be found at: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/openaccess
>
> 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